SYNTHESIS PROPERTIES AND APPLICATION OF ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTING NONCONJUGATED POLYMERS HAVING A PENDANT PERYLENYL GROUP

In order to develop new types of electrically conducting polymers, novel non-conjugated polymers containing a perylenyl chromophore as the pendant group, poly(3-vinylperylene) and poly(3-perylenylmethyl methacrylate), have been investigated. Chemically-doped polymers obtained on exposure to iodine vapor exhibited room-temperature conductivities of 10(-6) S cm-1 for a sample of poly(3-vinylperylene) with a doping degree of ca. 32% and 10(-8) S cm-1 for poly(3-perylenylmethyl methacrylate) with a doping degree of ca. 17%. The electrochemically-doped poly(3-vinylperylene) with doping degrees of 71-86%, prepared by both electrolytic polymerization of 3-vinylperylene and electrochemical doping of poly(3-vinylperylene), exhibited room-temperature conductivities of 10(-5) - 10(-4) S cm-1 with activation energies of ca. 0.3 - 0.4 eV. Poly(3-vinylperylene) was shown to function as a new type of cathode-active material for a rechargeable lithium battery.