Method of forming a polymer comprising a conjugated backbone
AssigneeSumitomo Chemical Company, Limited
InventorsThomas Pounds, Martin Humphries, Nazrul Islam
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Abstract
A method of forming a polymer comprising a conjugated backbone and side-groups pendant from the conjugated backbone wherein the method comprises the steps of: polymerising one or more monomers to form a precursor polymer comprising the conjugated backbone and precursor groups pendant from the conjugated backbone, and subsequently converting the precursor groups to the side-groups.
Claims13
A method of forming a polymer comprising a conjugated backbone and side-groups pendant from the conjugated backbone wherein the method comprises the steps of:
- polymerising one or more monomers to form a precursor polymer comprising the conjugated backbone and precursor groups pendant from the conjugated backbone, and
- converting the precursor groups to the side-groups.
The method according to claim 0, wherein the backbone comprises arylene or heteroarylene repeat units.
The method according to claim 0, wherein PROT is a silyl group.
The method according to claim 0, wherein RU1 is further substituted with one or more substituents that do not change during conversion of the precursor groups.
The method according to claim 0, wherein the one or more monomers comprise a monomer of formula (II):
- LG-RU2-LG (II)
- wherein RU2 is a group comprising one or more aromatic or heteroaromatic groups;
- each LG is a leaving group bound to an aromatic carbon atom of RU2;
- and RU2 is unsubstituted or substituted with one or more substituents.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.