Conductive polymers formed from conjugated backbone polymers doped with non-oxidizing protonic acids

Claim 1

An electrically conductive polymer other than polyaniline comprised of a conjugated backbone polymer doped with one or more non-oxidizing protonic acids other than hydrofluoric acid wherein said electrically conductive polymer has a conductivity greater than about 10 -3 S/cm and wherein at least one of said acids has an aqueous or non-aqueous pKa equal to or less than about 4 and the polymer has an oxidation potential less thanabout 4 volts vs Li/LI + reference electrode, wherein said conjugated backbone polymer is a homopolymer or copolymer having at least one type of recurring unit of the following formulae I to XIV: ##STR2## wherein: m is an integer equal to or greater than about 20; n, o and p are the same or different at each occurrence and are 0 or an integer equal to or greater than 1, with the proviso that the sum of n, o and p is equal to or greater than about 20, and with the further proviso that at least one of n or o is greater than zero; q is an integer from 0 to about 4; R 1 , R 2 , R 3 , R 4 , R 5 , R 6 , R 7 , R 8 , R 9 , R 10 , R 11 , R 12 , R 13 , and R 14 are the same or different at each occurrence and are hydrogen, isotopes of hydrogen, hydroxyl, alkyl, alkenyl, aryl, alkoxy, cycloalkyl, cycloalkenyl, alkanoyl, alkylthio, aryloxy, alkylthioalkyl, alkynyl, alkylaryl, arylalkyl, amido, alkylsulfinyl, alkoxyalkyl, alkylsulfonyl, arylamino, diarylamino, alkylamino, dialkylamino, phosphoric acid and derivatives thereof, alkylarylamino, arylthio, heterocycle, arylsulfinyl, alkoxycarbonyl, arylsulfonyl, carboxylic acids and derivatives thereof, halo, nitro, cyano, or sulfonic acid and derivatives thereof, or alkyl or phenyl substituted with one or more sulfonic acid and derivatives thereof, phosphoric acid and derivatives thereof, carboxylic acid and derivatives thereof, halo, amino, nitro, cyano, hydroxyl, or epoxy moieties, or a moiety of the formula: --(OR.sub.15).sub.r OR.sub.16 wherein: R 15 is a divalent alkylene moiety having from 1 to about 7 carbon atoms; R 16 is alkyl having from 1 to about 20 carbon atoms; and r is an integer from about 1 to 50; or R 1 and R 2 , or R 3 and R 4 , or R 5 and R 6 , or R 7 and R 8 , or R 9 and R 10 , or R 11 , and R 12 , or R 13 and R 14 substituents taken together are an alkylene, alkynylene or alkenylene group completing a 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, or 10 member aromatic, or saturated or unsaturated cyclic ring, which ring may optionally include one or more heteroatoms of nitrogen, sulfur, phosphorus, selenium, sulfinyl, sulfonyl or oxygen; and X 1 and X 2 are the same or different and are S, O, Se, NR 17 , or PR 17 , where R 17 is hydrogen, alkylaryl, arylalkyl, alkyl or aryl.