A ladder tetrazine polymer is disclosed.

A polybenzodifuran ladder polymer is disclosed.

A semiconducting composition comprising a semiconducting polymer and a semiconducting non-polymeric polycyclic compound, wherein the semiconducting polymer comprises units of A and/or B: ##STR00001##
wherein R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.5, R.sub.6, R.sub.7, R.sub.8, x, y, p, q, r, R.sub.3, R.sub.4, R.sub.9, R.sub.10 and R.sub.11 have any of the meanings defined in the description.

The organic semiconductor polymers relates to the synthesis of a carbazole-based ladder polymer. The synthesis of the ladder polymer includes forming a precursor conjugated polymer by Suzuki step growth polymerization of 2,7-dibromocarbazole with 1,4-dibromo-2,5-divinylbenzene, followed by end capping with 2-bromostyrene and 2-vinyl-phenylboronic acid. Then, the pendent vinyl groups are closed by ring-closing olefin metathesis to obtain the ladder polymer.

Materials are provided for use as active emissive layers in organic electronic devices such as light-emitting filed effect transistors. Light-emitting transistors (LET) are an alternative to light-emitting diodes and have several important benefits, however, materials developed specifically for LET are quite scarce. Herein a new family of materials is disclosed that has been developed specifically for LET.

A ladder tetrazine polymer is disclosed.

A ladder tetrazine polymer is disclosed.

A ladder tetrazine polymer is disclosed.

A polybenzodifuran ladder polymer is disclosed.

A semiconducting composition comprising a semiconducting polymer and a semiconducting non-polymeric polycyclic compound, wherein the semiconducting polymer comprises units of A and/or B:

##STR00001##

wherein R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.5, R.sub.6, R.sub.7, R.sub.8, x, y, p, q, r, R.sub.3, R.sub.4, R.sub.9, R.sub.10 and R.sub.11 have any of the meanings defined in the description.