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US 2010/0305288 A1Published application
Fused Thiophenes, Articles, and Methods Thereof
AssigneeCorning Incorporated
InventorsMingqian He, Thomas Mark Leslie, Weijun Niu
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Abstract
Fused thiophene (FT) compounds, FT polymers, FT containing articles, and methods for making and using the FT compounds and polymers thereof of the formulas, as defined herein.
Claims20
A compound of the formula:
- where
- each R is independently a carbon-carbon bond, a carbon-sulfur bond, or a substituted or unsubstituted, (C1-24)hydrocarbyl;
- n is an integer from 2 to 4;
- and
- each -G1 is independently
- a carbon-carbon bond or a carbon-sulfur bond;
- a monovalent, substituted or unsubstituted, aryl of the formula —{Ar(R1)q}p—Ar(R1)q,
- a monovalent, substituted or unsubstituted, heteroaryl of the formula -{Het(R1)q}p-Het(R1)q, or
- a monovalent combination of one or more, substituted or unsubstituted, aryl and heteroaryl substituents,
- p is 0 to 4,
- q is 0 to 4, and
- each —R1 is independently —H, —F, or a monovalent, substituted or unsubstituted, saturated or unsaturated, (C1-24)hydrocarbyl,
- or a combination thereof, and a salt thereof.
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A polymer of the formula:
- where
- each -G1- is independently
- a carbon-carbon bond, a carbon-sulfur bond,
- a divalent, substituted or unsubstituted, aryl of the formula —{Ar(R1)q}p—Ar(R1)q—, or
- a divalent, substituted or unsubstituted, heteroaryl of the formula -{Het(R1)q}p-Het(R1)q—,
- each -G2- is independently
- a divalent, substituted or unsubstituted, aryl of the formula —{Ar(R1)q}p—Ar(R1)q—,
- a divalent, substituted or unsubstituted, heteroaryl of the formula -{Het(R1)q}p-Het(R1)q—, or
- a divalent, substituted or unsubstituted, unsaturated (C1-24)hydrocarbyl,
- each R is independently a carbon-carbon bond, or a substituted or unsubstituted, (C1-24)hydrocarbyl;
- each —R1 is independently —H, —F, or a monovalent, substituted or unsubstituted, saturated or unsaturated, (C1-24)hydrocarbyl, or a combination thereof, and a salt thereof,
- each n is independently an integer from 2 to 4;
- each m is independently an integer from 2 to 10,000;
- each p is independently from 0 to 4;
- and
- each q is independently from 0 to 4,
- or a salt thereof.
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A dihalogenated compound of the formula
- X-G1-C-G1-X
- where
- C is a divalent fused thiophene core of the formulas:
- each -G1- is independently:
- a divalent, substituted or unsubstituted, aryl of the formula —{Ar(R1)q}p—Ar(R1)q—, or
- a divalent, substituted or unsubstituted, heteroaryl of the formula -{Het(R1)q}p-Het(R1)q—,
- each R is independently a carbon-carbon bond, or a monovalent substituted or unsubstituted, (C1-24)hydrocarbyl;
- each —R1 is independently —H, —F, or a monovalent, substituted or unsubstituted, saturated or unsaturated, (C1-24)hydrocarbyl, or a combination of such -G1- groups,
- each n is independently an integer from 2 to 4;
- each p is independently from 0 to 4,
- each q is independently from 0 to 4, and
- each X is independently halo,
- or a salt thereof.
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A method for making a polymer, comprising:
- contacting a core compound of the formula:
- with a halogenating agent to form the α-, α′-,dihalo product of the formula X—C—X where C is the contacted core compound and X is halo;
- and
- contacting the X—C—X product with about one mole ratio equivalent of a coupling compound of the formula M-G1-G2-G1-M, and a metal catalyst to form the respective polymer products of the formulas:
- where
- each R is independently a monovalent, substituted or unsubstituted, (C1-24)hydrocarbyl,
- n is an integer from 2 to 4, and
- m is an integer from 2 to 10,000.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.