Tert-alkylphenoxy-substituted polycyclic compounds

A tert-alkyiphenoxy-substituted polycyclic compound of general formula I

• where
• P is a conjugated polycyclic radical which is stable to bases and nucleophiles, optionally bears aryl substituents and contains no group from the group consisting of —CO—NH—CO—, —COOH and —CO—O—CO—, with the proviso that metal phthalocyanines and, if n is 4, N,N′ disubstituted perylene-3,4:9,10-tetracarboxylic diimides shall be excluded, wherein the conjugated polycyclic radical is selected from the group consisting of naphthalenes, anthracenes, phenanthrenes, tetracenes, perylenes, terrylenes, quaterrylenes, pentarylenes, hexarylenes, anthraquinones, indanthrones, N-substituted naphthalene-1,8-dicarboxylic monoimides, N,N′-disubstituted naphthalene-1,8:
• 4,5-tetracarboxylic diimides, N-substituted perylene-3,4- dicarboxylic monoimides, N,N′-disubstituted perylene-3,4:9,10-tetracarboxylic diimides, N,N′-di-substituted terrylene-3,4:11,12-tetracarboxylic diimides, and N,N′-disubstituted quaterrylene-3,4:13,14-tetracarboxylic diimides;
• R is C2–C8-alkyl, whose carbon chain may be interrupted by one or more groups selected from the group consisting of —O—, —S—, —NR1—, —CO— and/or —SO2— and which may be monosubstituted or polysubstituted by C1–C6-alkoxy or;
• C5–C8-cycloalkyl whose carbon chain may be interrupted by one or more groups selected from the group consisting of —O—, —S—, —NR1, —CO— and/or —SO2— and which may be monosubstituted or polysubstituted by C1–C6-alkyl;
• R1 is hydrogen or C1–C6-alkyl;
• Hal is chlorine and/or bromine;
• m is from 0 to 15;
• n is from 1 to 16, subject to the proviso that the sum m+n is 16.