Patent number: 7060846
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, Mgl, Sn(R?)3, where R? comprises C1-6 alkyl or —OC1-6 alkyl, boronic acid, boronic ester, —CH?CHR? (where R? comprises H or C1-6 alkyl), —OC1-6 alkyl, —COOC1-6 alkyl, —S—COR?? and —COR?? (where R?? comprises 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:
September 20, 2005
Date of Patent:
June 13, 2006
Assignee:
Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.
Inventors:
Steffen Zahn, Andrew Francis Nordquist, Kristen Elaine Minnich, Guari Sankar Lal, William Franklin Burgoyne, Jr., Axel Klauck-Jacobs