US 7,589,166 B2
Thiophene-containing compound and polymer thereof
Yoshihiro Ohba, Yonezawa (Japan); Kazuaki Sato, Yonezawa (Japan); Yohei Nishino, Minamiashigara (Japan); Mieko Seki, Minamiashigara (Japan); Takeshi Agata, Minamiashigara (Japan); Kiyokazu Mashimo, Minamiashigara (Japan); Katsuhiro Sato, Minamiashigara (Japan); Hirohito Yoneyama, Minamiashigara (Japan); Daisuke Okuda, Minamiashigara (Japan); Hidekazu Hirose, Minamiashigara (Japan); and Toru Ishii, Minamiashigara (Japan)
Assigned to Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd., Tokyo (Japan)
Filed on Apr. 14, 2006, as Appl. No. 11/404,991.
Claims priority of application No. 2005-187486 (JP), filed on Jun. 27, 2005; and application No. 2006-109153 (JP), filed on Apr. 11, 2006.
Prior Publication US 2006/0293500 A1, Dec. 28, 2006
Int. Cl. C08G 75/00 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 528—377  [549/59] 18 Claims
 
1. A thiophene-containing compound represented by Formula (I):

OG Complex Work Unit Drawing
wherein in Formula (I), Ar1 represents a substituted or unsubstituted monovalent aromatic group; X represents a divalent straight-chain hydrocarbon group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, a divalent branched-chain hydrocarbon group having 2 to 10 carbon atoms, or a substituted or unsubstituted divalent aromatic group; R1 to R5 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, a cyano group, a halogen group, a substituted amino group, a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group, or a substituted or unsubstituted aralkyl group; 1 represents an integer from 1 to 5; and m and k each independently represent 0 or 1.