The present invention provides organic compounds having pseudocapacitive performance and methods of preparing said compounds. The organic compounds can include perylene diamine (PDI) subunits and hexaazatrinaphthylene (HATN) subunits.

The invention relates to novel conjugated polymers containing one or more diindeno-thieno[3,2-b]thiophene based polycyclic repeating units, to methods for their preparation and educts or intermediates used therein, to polymer blends, mixtures and formulations containing them, to the use of the polymers, polymer blends, mixtures and formulations as organic semiconductors in organic electronic (OE) devices, especially in organic photovoltaic (OPV) devices and organic photodetectors (OPD), and to OE, OPV and OPD devices comprising these polymers, polymer blends, mixtures or formulations.

This application discloses a white-light hyperbranched conjugated polymer, a method for preparing the same and its use. The polymer uses a red phosphorescent Ir(III) complex as a core and polyfluorene derivative blue fluorescent materials as a framework which either contains or does not contain carbazole derivatives, and the white light hyperbranched polymers realize white-light emission by adjusting the content of the red phosphorescent Ir(III) complex connected using the complementation of blue and red color. The electroluminescent spectrum of the conjugated polymer in the present application covers the whole visible light emission area and is close to the pure white light emission, by which the conjugated polymer could be used as a material used in light-emitting layer to prepare the organic electroluminescent devices.

The present invention is a hydrogenated cycloolefin ring-opening polymer comprising a repeating unit derived from tetracyclododecene, and a repeating unit derived from an additional norbornene-based monomer, the hydrogenated cycloolefin ring-opening polymer having a racemo diad ratio of 65% or more with respect to the repeating unit derived from tetracyclododecene, the hydrogenated cycloolefin ring-opening polymer having a weight average molecular weight (Mw) of 10,000 to 40,000, and a resin formed article obtained by forming the hydrogenated cycloolefin ring-opening polymer having a glass transition temperature of 140 to 165° C., a melt flow rate of 8 g/10 min or more as measured at a temperature of 280° C. under a load of 21.18 N, and a flexural strength of 60 MPa or more as measured by a flexural test at a test speed of 2 mm/min, and a resin formed article, and an optical member.

Conjugated donor-acceptor copolymers comprising a donor and an acceptor, wherein the acceptor comprises a fluorophenylene. Organic Field Effect Transistors (OFETs) comprising the conjugated donor-acceptor copolymers are also disclosed.

A composition comprising a phosphorescent compound of formula (I) and a polymer comprising a repeat unit of formula (II) Ar.sup.1 is an aryl or heteroaryl group. R.sup.2 is a substituent. A is independently in each occurrence N or CR.sup.3 wherein R.sup.3 is H or a substituent. M is a transition metal or metal ion. x is a positive integer of at least 1. y is 0 or a positive integer. L.sup.1 is a mono- or polydentate ligand. R.sup.1 is a substituent. z is 0 or a positive integer. X is O or S. The phosphorescent compound of formula (I) may be mixed with the polymer or may be covalently bound thereto. The composition may be used in the light-emitting layer of an organic light-emitting device.

There is provided p-type organic polymers of general formula I. The polymers may be useful as semi-conducting material. Thus, thin films and devices comprising such polymers are also provided.

A polymer compound comprising a structural unit represented by the formula (1): ##STR00001##
wherein Ring A and Ring B represent each independently a heterocyclic ring, and the heterocyclic ring may have a substituent, Ring C represents an aromatic hydrocarbon ring obtained by condensing two or more benzene rings, the aromatic hydrocarbon ring has at least one of an alkyl group, an alkoxy group, an alkylthio group, an amino group or a hydroxyl group, and these groups may have a substituent, Z.sup.1 and Z.sup.2 represent each independently a group represented by the formula (Z-1), a group represented by the formula (Z-2), a group represented by the formula (Z-3), a group represented by the formula (Z-4) or a group represented by the formula (Z-5), ##STR00002##
wherein R represents an alkyl group, an alkoxy group, an alkylthio group, an aryl group or a mono-valent heterocyclic group, and these groups may have a substituent, and when there exist a plurality of R, these may be the same or different.

An organic light-emitting device (100) comprising an anode (103); a cathode (109); a light-emitting layer (107) between the anode and the cathode; a first hole-transporting layer (105A) comprising a first conjugated hole-transporting polymer between the anode and the light-emitting layer; and a second hole-transporting layer (105B) comprising a second conjugated hole-transporting polymer between the first hole-transporting layer and the light-emitting layer, wherein a lowest excited state energy level of the first hole-transporting polymer is lower than the lowest excited state energy of the second hole-transporting polymer.

An organic compound, a donor-acceptor conjugated polymer, a formulation and a thin film, wherein a solution of the donor-acceptor conjugated polymer exhibits a peak optical absorption spectrum red shift of at least 100 nm when the donor-acceptor conjugated polymer solution is cooled from 140° C. to room temperature.