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US 9,287,505 B2Granted
Semiconducting polymers
AssigneeMerck Patent GmbH
InventorsNicolas Blouin, William Mitchell, Miguel Carrasco-Orozco, Frank Egon Meyer, Steven Tierney
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Abstract
The invention relates to novel polymers containing repeating units based on thieno[3,4-b]thiophene, monomers and methods for their preparation, their use as semiconductors in organic electronic (OE) devices, especially in organic photovoltaic (OPV) devices, and to OE and OPV devices comprising these polymers.
Claims21
Conjugated polymer comprising one or more identical or different repeating units of formula I
- wherein the asterisks indicate a link to neighboring groups,
- Ar1 is on each occurrence identically or differently a group selected from the following formulae
- Ar2 is on each occurrence identically or differently a group selected from the following formulae
- wherein ** indicates the position of attachment to the thienothiophene ring,
- W is S, Se or O,
- V is CH or N,
- X1 and X2 are, on each occurrence identically or differently, and independently of each other, O, S or Se
- X is H or F,
- R on each occurrence identically or differently, denotes F, Cl, Br, I, CN, or straight-chain, branched or cyclic alkyl with 1 to 35 C atoms, in which one or more non-adjacent C atoms are optionally replaced by —O—, —S—, —CO—, —CO—O—, —O—CO—, —O—CO—O—, —CR0═CR00— or —C≡C— and in which one or more H atoms are optionally replaced by F, Cl, Br, I or CN, or denotes aryl, heteroaryl, aryloxy, heteroaryloxy, arylcarbonyl, heteroarylcarbonyl, arylcarbonyloxy, heteroarylcarbonyloxy, aryloxycarbonyl or heteroaryloxycarbonyl having 4 to 30 ring atoms that is unsubstituted or substituted by one or more non-aromatic groups R1,
- R0 and R00 are independently of each other H or optionally substituted carbyl or hydrocarbyl optionally comprising one or more hetero atoms,
- R1 is on each occurrence identically or differently H, halogen, —CN, —NC, —NCO, —NCS, —OCN, —SCN, —C(═O)NR0R00, —C(═O)X0, —C(═O)R0, —NH2, —NR0R00, —SH, —SR0, —SO3H, —SO2R0, —OH, —NO2, —CF3, —SF5, optionally substituted silyl, carbyl or hydrocarbyl with 1 to 40 C atoms that is optionally substituted and optionally comprises one or more hetero atoms, or P-Sp-,
- R2 and R3 on each occurrence identically or differently, and independently of each other, are selected from straight-chain alkyl, alkoxy and thioalkyl with 1 to 20 C atoms, or are selected from branched alkyl, alkoxy and thioalkyl with 3 to 20 C atoms, wherein in all the aforementioned groups one or more H atoms are optionally replaced by F, or are selected from aryloxy, heteroaryl or heteroaryloxy that is optionally alkylated or alkoxylated and has 4 to 30 ring atoms,
- R4 has on each occurrence identically or differently one of the meanings given for R or R1,
- P is a polymerisable or crosslinkable group,
- Sp is a spacer group or a single bond,
- X0 is halogen.
13 more elements
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.