Diarylacetylenes, enamines and acetylenic polymers and their production

Claim 1

A process for producing an acetylenic group-containing polymer or copolymer of formula (VII): ##STR27## wherein Z 1 is fluorine, hydroxyl or mercaptyl, Z 2 is hydrogen or fluorine Z 3 is --O--, --S--, --CH 2 --, --CO--, --CO--Ar 6 --CO-- or --Ar 7 --, in which Ar 6 and Ar 7 are selected from divalent aromatic linkages, Y 1 and Y 2 are each selected from --O-- or --S--, provided that when Z 3 is --O-- or --S--, Y 1 and Y 2 are both single bonds, Ar 4 and Ar 5 are each independently selected from arylene or hetarylene, unsubstituted or substituted one or more times by radicals selected from F; Cl,; Br; alkyl of 1 to 6 carbon atoms; alkenyl of 2 to 6 carbon atoms; aryl of 6 to 12 carbon atoms; aralkyl of 7 to 18 carbon atoms; aralkenyl of 8 to 18 carbon atoms; alkoxy of 1 to 6 carbon atoms; thioalkoxy of 1 to 6 carbon atoms; aryloxy of 6 to 12 carbon atoms or thioaryloxy of 6 to 12 carbon atoms; X is --Ar 4 --C.tbd.C--Ar 5 or a copolymer unit, n is an integer of 2 to 200, x is an integer of 0 to 199 and n is >x, comprising: polymerizing a diarylacetylene of formula (VI): X.sub.1 --Ar.sub.4 --C.tbd.C--Ar.sub.5 --X.sub.2 (VI) in which X 1 and X 2 are independently selected from F or OH and Ar 4 and Ar 5 are as defined above, or copolymerizing said diarylacetylene of formula (VI) with a comonomer selected from dihydroxy aromatics or dihaloaromatics in which the halogen atoms are activated for displacement, or in the presence of a reactant which provides a divalent linkage for the acetylenic monomer units, selected from --CH 2 --, --O--, --S--, --CO-- or said copolymer unit X.