Patent number: 7094365
Abstract: Thienothiophene monomers having an SF5 group and conducting oligomers and polymers formed by the polymerization of such monomers and their use as hole injection materials, charge transport materials, or as semiconductors. The compound may be of the formula: where X and X? are independently H, halogen atoms (e.g., F, Cl, Br, and I), MgCl, MgBr, MgI, Sn(R?)3, where R? is C1-6 alkyl or —OC1-6 alkyl, boronic acid, boronic ester, —CH?CHR? (where R? is H or C1-6 alkyl), —OC1-6 alkyl, —COOC1-6 alkyl, —S—COR?? and —COR?? (where R?? is H or C1-6 alkyl), —C?CH, or polymerizable aromatic rings (such as phenyl, naphthalene, pyrrole, dithiophene, thienothiophene, thiophene and so forth.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 4, 2004
Date of Patent:
August 22, 2006
Assignee:
Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.
Inventors:
Steffen Zahn, Andrew Francis Nordquist, Kristen Elaine Minnich, Gauri Sankar Lal, William Franklin Burgoyne, Jr., Axel Klauck-Jacobs