Charge-transporting 3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene-based hydrazone monomers and oligomers

3,4-Ethylenedioxythiophene-based hydrazones, containing reactive functional groups were synthesized and their optical, thermal, photophysical and electrochemical properties were studied. The monomers were subjected to cationic polymerization using boron trifluoride etherate as an initiator. The ionization potentials of the films of the hydrazones, measured by the electron photoemission technique, range from 5.53 to 5.62 eV. Room temperature time-of-flight hole mobilities in the solid solutions of 3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene hydrazone monomers in bisphenol-Z polycarbonate exceed 10−5 cm2 V−1 s−1 at high applied electric fields.