1. A reservoir for a pump, the pump comprising a fluid inlet and a pump mounting structure having at least one securing aperture, the reservoir comprising:
an internal fluid chamber;
a fluid outlet; and
a reservoir mounting structure having a securing aperture;
wherein the reservoir fluid outlet connects directly to the pump fluid inlet
and the reservoir securing aperture aligns with one of the at least pump securing apertures.
2. The reservoir of claim 1, wherein the reservoir mounting securing aperture abuts one pump securing aperture.
3. The reservoir of claim 1, further comprising at least one external surface of the chamber wherein the at least one external surface is formed to lie beside the pump.
4. The reservoir of claim 1, further comprising at least one external surface of the chamber is formed to but against a surface of the pump.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1.-13. (canceled)
14. A compound of formula Ia:
wherein
R1-7 are identical or different carbyl or hydrocarbyl groups.
15. A compound of formula Ia:
wherein
R1-7 are identical or different carbyl or hydrocarbyl groups,
which is obtained by a process comprising the following steps:
a1) reducing a 4,7-disubstituted isobenzofuran-1,3-dione (2) in the presence of a reducing agent to form the 4,7-disubstituted 3H-isobenzofuran-1-one (4),
or
a2) oxidizing a 1,2-bis(hydroxymethyl)-3,6-disubstituted benzene (3) in the presence of an oxidizing agent to form a 4,7-disubstituted 3H-isobenzofuran-1-one (4),
or
a3) oxidizing a 1,2-bis(hydroxymethyl)-3,6-disubstituted benzene (3) in the presence of an oxidizing agent to form a 4,7-disubstituted 1-hydroxy-1,3-dihydro-isobenzofuran (5a),
and, in case of step a1) or step a2),
b) reducing the product (4) of step a1) or a2) in the presence of a reducing agent to form a 4,7-disubstituted 1-hydroxy-1,3-dihydro-isobenzofuran (5a),
and
c) methylating the product (5a) of step a3) or b) to form a 4,7-disubstituted 1-methoxy-1,3-dihydro-isobenzofuran (5b),
d) eliminating the product (5b) of step c) in the presence of a base to form a 4,7-disubstituted isobenzofuran (6),
e) reacting the product (6) of step d) with p-benzoquinone by Diels-Alder cycloaddition to form a bis-cycloadduct (7),
f) dehydrating the product (7) of step e) in the presence of a base to form a 1,4,8,11-tetrasubstituted 6,13-pentacenequinone (8), and
g) alkynating the product (8) of step f) with a monosubstituted metal acetylide to form a 1,4,8,11-tetrasubstituted 6,13-bis(1-substituted ethynyl)pentacene (9).
16. A formulation comprising one or more compounds of claim 14 and one or more solvents.
17. A formulation comprising one or more compounds of claim 14 and one or more organic binders, or precursors thereof, and optionally one or more solvents.
18. A charge transport, semiconducting, electrically conducting, photoconducting or light emitting material or component comprising one or more compounds according to claim 14.
19. An optical, electrooptical, electronic, electroluminescent or photoluminescent component or device comprising one or more compounds according to claim 14.
20. A component or device according to claim 19, which is selected from the group consisting of electrooptical displays, LCDs, optical films, retarders, compensators, polarisers, beam splitters, reflective films, alignment layers, colour filters, holographic elements, hot stamping foils, coloured images, decorative or security markings, LC pigments, adhesives, non-linear optic (NLO) devices, optical information storage devices, electronic devices, organic semiconductors, organic field effect transistors (OFET), integrated circuits (IC), thin film transistors (TFT), Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags, organic light emitting diodes (OLED), organic light emitting transistors (OLET), electroluminescent displays, organic photovoltaic (OPV) devices, organic solar cells (O-SC), organic laser diodes (O-laser), organic integrated circuits (O-IC), lighting devices, sensor devices, electrode materials, photoconductors, photodetectors, electrophotographic recording devices, capacitors, charge injection layers, Schottky diodes, planarising layers, antistatic films, conducting substrates, conducting patterns, photoconductors, electrophotographic applications, electrophotographic recording, organic memory devices, biosensors, and biochips.
21. A compound according to claim 14, wherein the carbyl or hydrocarbyl groups for R1-R7 are independently selected from: a C1-C40 alkyl group, a C2-C40 alkenyl group, a C2-C40 alkynyl group, a C3-C40 allyl group, a C4-C40 alkyldienyl group, a C4-C40 polyenyl group, a C6-C18 aryl group, a C6-C40 alkylaryl group, a C6-C40 arylalkyl group, a C4-C40 cycloalkyl group and a C4-C40 cycloalkenyl group.
22. A compound according to claim 14, wherein the carbyl or hydrocarbyl groups for R1-R7 are independently selected from:
mono-, bi- or tricyclic aromatic or heteroaromatic group with up to 25 C atoms that may also comprise condensed rings and is optionally substituted with one or more groups L, wherein L is F, Cl, Br, I or an alkyl, alkoxy, alkylcarbonyl or alkoxycarbonyl group with 1 to 12 C atoms, wherein one or more H atoms may optionally be replaced by F or Cl, and
a straight chain, branched or cyclic alkyl with 1 to 20 C-atoms, which is unsubstituted or mono- or polysubstituted by F, Cl, Br or I, and wherein one or more non-adjacent CH2 groups are optionally replaced, in each case independently from one another, by \u2014O\u2014, \u2014S\u2014, \u2014NR0\u2014, \u2014SiR0R00\u2014, \u2014CY1\u2550CY2\u2014 or \u2014C\u2261C\u2014 in such a manner that O andor S atoms are not linked directly to one another, wherein:
R0 and R00 are independently of each other H or alkyl with 1 to 12 C-atoms,
and Y1 and Y2 are independently of each other H, F, Cl or CN.
23. A compound according to claim 14, wherein the carbyl or hydrocarbyl groups for R5-7 are identical optionally substituted alkyl groups.