Abstract: An electrode of the present invention includes: an electrically conductive support (11); and an active material layer (12) provided on the electrically conductive support (11), containing an electrode active material (13) and an electrical conductivity assistant (14), wherein: the electrode active material (13) includes at least one of a first polymer compound having a tetrachalcogenofulvalene structure in a repetition unit of a main chain, and a second polymer compound which is a copolymer between a first unit which has the tetrachalcogenofulvalene structure in a side chain and a second unit which does not have the tetrachalcogenofulvalene structure in the side chain; and in active material layer (13), the electrode active material (13) does not form particles but covers at least a portion of a surface of the electrical conductivity assistant (14).

Abstract: An electricity storage device including a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and an electrolytic solution located between the positive electrode and the negative electrode. At least one of the positive electrode 31 and the negative electrode contains an electricity storage material containing a polymerization product having a tetrachalcogenofulvalene structure in a repeat unit of a main chain.

Abstract: An electricity storage device including a positive electrode 31, a negative electrode 32, and an electrolytic solution 29 located between the positive electrode and the negative electrode. At least one of the positive electrode 31 and the negative electrode 32 contains an electricity storage material containing a polymerization product having a tetrachalcogenofulvalene structure in a repeat unit of a main chain.

Abstract: A polymer having a repeating unit structure represented by the following general formula (1), wherein in general formula (1), Ph is a phenyl group; X is an oxygen atom, a sulfur atom, a selenium atom or a tellurium atom; and R1 and R1 each independently contains at least one selected from the group consisting of a chained saturated hydrocarbon group, a chained unsaturated hydrocarbon group, a cyclic saturated hydrocarbon group, a cyclic unsaturated hydrocarbon group, a phenyl group, a hydrogen atom, a hydroxyl group, a cyano group, an amino group, a nitro group and a nitroso group.

Abstract: An electrode of the present invention includes: an electrically conductive support (11); and an active material layer (12) provided on the electrically conductive support (11), containing an electrode active material (13) and an electrical conductivity assistant (14), wherein: the electrode active material (13) includes at least one of a first polymer compound having a tetrachalcogenofulvalene structure in a repetition unit of a main chain, and a second polymer compound which is a copolymer between a first unit which has the tetrachalcogenofulvalene structure in a side chain and a second unit which does not have the tetrachalcogenofulvalene structure in the side chain; and in active material layer (13), the electrode active material (13) does not form particles but covers at least a portion of a surface of the electrical conductivity assistant (14).

Abstract: To provide a polymer compound which is useful as a light emitting material or charge transport material having a boron atom. A polymer compound comprising a structure represented by a formula (1) as described below: wherein R1, R2, and R3 each independently represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent.

Abstract: An electricity storage device including a positive electrode 31, a negative electrode 32, and an electrolytic solution 29 located between the positive electrode and the negative electrode. At least one of the positive electrode 31 and the negative electrode 32 contains an electricity storage material containing a polymerization product having a tetrachalcogenofulvalene structure in a repeat unit of a main chain.

Abstract: A polymer having a structure represented by the following general formula (1), wherein in general formula (1), Ph is a phenyl group; X is an oxygen atom, a sulfur atom, a selenium atom or a tellurium atom; and R1 and R1 each independently contains at least one selected from the group consisting of a chained saturated hydrocarbon group, a chained unsaturated hydrocarbon group, a cyclic saturated hydrocarbon group, a cyclic unsaturated hydrocarbon group, a phenyl group, a hydrogen atom, a hydroxyl group, a cyano group, an amino group, a nitro group and a nitroso group. The chained saturated hydrocarbon group, the chained unsaturated hydrocarbon group, the cyclic saturated hydrocarbon group and the cyclic unsaturated hydrocarbon group each contain at least one selected from the group consisting of a carbon atom, an oxygen atom, a nitrogen atom, a sulfur atom and a silicon atom.

Abstract: It is an object of the invention to provide a novel ?-conjugated polymer compound capable of expecting an application as a functional material having a solubility, a heat resistance, an electrochemical activity and a fluorescence, and a method for producing the same. A dihalide is represented by the following formula: (wherein R1 represents a halogen, R2 represents an alkyl group or a silyl group having a substituent, and R3 represents a hydrogen or an alkyl group).

Abstract: The present invention provides a process for producing a conductive polymer, characterized by comprising conducting polymerization in the presence of a polymerizable monomer, a surfactant, a solvent and an oxidizing agent under initial conditions that a concentration of the polymerizable monomer is from 0.20 to 2.8 mol/L and a molar ratio of the surfactant is from 0.8 to 1.6 mol per mol of the polymerizable monomer; and a conductive polymer obtained by the method. Since the conductive polymer of the present invention has high conductivity, it is useful as constituent members of electrochemical elements.

Abstract: It is an object of the invention to provide a novel ?-conjugated polymer compound capable of expecting an application as a functional material having a solubility, a heat resistance, an electrochemical activity and a fluorescence, and a method for producing the same. A dihalide is represented by the following formula: (wherein R1 represents a halogen, R2 represents an alkyl group or a silyl group having a substituent, and R3 represents a hydrogen or an alkyl group).

Abstract: The present invention provides novel polyaminopyridines which are excellent in solubility in various solvents, and are preferably used in a polymer-type organic electroluminescent material, and a process for preparing the same. More particularly, the present invention provides polyaminopyridines having a repetition structural unit represented by the following general formula (1); and having a number average molecular weight in a range of 500 to 1000000.

Abstract: A method for producing a polymerized hydrocarbon includes a step of a dehalogenation of a halogenated hydrocarbon with a magnesium-diene complex. Low-molecular-weight compounds, such as dimers or trimers of hydrocarbon units, oligomers of hydrocarbon units, or polymers of hydrocarbon units can be produced by this method while generating significantly less odor.

Abstract: A polymer compound which is a polyphenylene co-condensation polymer consisting substantially of paraphenylene group and metaphenylene group and improved in forming ability and functions, wherein the ratio of metaphenylene group is in the range of 60 to 95%.

Abstract: A method for producing a polymerized hydrocarbon includes a step of a dehalogenation of a halogenated hydrocarbon with a magnesium-diene complex. Low-molecular-weight compounds, such as dimers or trimers of hydrocarbon units, oligomers of hydrocarbon units, or polymers of hydrocarbon units can be produced by this method while generating significantly less odor.

Abstract: A polymer compound which is a polyphenylene co-condensation polymer consisting substantially of paraphenylene group and metaphenylene group and improved in forming ability and functions, wherein the ratio of metaphenylene group is in the range of 60 to 95%.

Abstract: By reacting trialkyl aluminum (AlR3) with 2-position substituted 8-quinolinol (q′H) at a mole ratio of 1:2, an AlRq′2-type aluminum compound having a specified structural formula is manufactured. The resulting compound is further reacted with an active hydrogen-containing organic compound to obtain a derivative such as an Alq′2q type derivative (wherein q represents 8-quinolinolato ligand and q′ represents 2-position substituted 8-quinolinolato ligand).

Abstract: N-Oxides of nitrogenous heterocycle or nitrogenous fused heterocycle polymers of general formula (1) or (7) (wherein any two of a, b, c, d, e, f, g and h are carbon atoms participating in the bonding between repeating units; at least one of them is N→O; the rest are each CH, N or N→O; and the degree of polymerization “n” is at least 5). These polymers have excellent heat resistance, are soluble in aqueous or organic solvents and controllable in the degree of depolarization and electrochemical redox potential, exhibit clear color changes by chemical or electrochemical oxidation or reduction, and are conductive per se . They can be used as moldings such as fibers and films; electrochromic elements; active materials and electrodes of cells; semiconductors including n-type semiconductors; and so on.

Abstract: An alkyl group-substituted poly(quinone) useful as a material for an electrochromic device and an n-type semiconductor device, includes a repeating unit, has a polymerization degree (n) of not less than 20, includes a .pi.-conjugated system, and contains, as the repeating unit, bivalent residues of dihalogenated aromatic compounds of alkyl group-substituted quinones in which the alkyl group has from 1-8 carbon atoms and the bivalent residues are obtained by removing halogen atoms at two locations. A method for producing the alkyl group-substituted poly(quinone) includes dehalogenating and polycondensing to polymerize a dihalogenated aromatic compound of an alkyl group-substituted quinone by removing halogen atoms at two locations in the presence of a zero-valent nickel compound, whereby the zero-valent nickel compound withdraws halogens from the dihalogenated aromatic compound and causes coupling between aromatic groups thereof.

Abstract: Disclosed is a copolymer represented by the following general formula (1): ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents a group based on a polymer or a copolymer possessing electroconductivity and inducing coloration or discoloration on being oxidized or reduced, R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 represent independently a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1 to 1,000 carbon atoms, A represents a group possessing polarity and exhibiting affinity for ions, and L and M are independently an integer of at least 1, providing that the total degree of polymerization is an integer in the range of 10 to 12,000. The copolymer may be a block copolymer or a random copolymer. This copolymer exhibits electrochromism and, therefore, is useful as a coloring-discoloring material which induces coloration or discoloration on being oxidized or reduced, particularly as an electrochromic substance used in an electrochromic display device.