Polythiazole: a new semiconducting polymer having heteroatoms in the conduction pathway

With the aim of understanding the influence of heteroatoms in the conduction pathway in organic conducting polymer, we envisaged the insertion of a nitrogen atom in the main conjugated skeleton. A convenient monomer for this purpose turned out to be thiazole. We have synthesized 2,5-polythiazole and tried to "dope" it with redox agents. D.C. conductivity measurements performed on the doped material gave values of about 10-7?-1 cm-1.