Crosslinking p-dopants for p-doping organic hole conductors

A method produces cross-linked hole-conducting electric layers by converting functionalized p-dopants. The functionalized p-dopants are organic metal complexes containing at least one central atom and organic ligands, wherein the central atom is selected from a metal of the groups 6-15 of the periodic table, and at least one of the organic ligands is selected from the following formulas I-V, in which E independently of one another is oxygen, sulfur, selenium, or N(E1)x, and each Rv has at least one functionalizing group selected from the group RF including -OH, -COOH, -NH2, -NHR′, halogen, C2-C40-alkenyl, -dienyl, -alkinyl, -alkenyloxy, -dienyloxy, -alkinyloxy, acrylic acid, oxetan, oxiran, silane, acrylic acid, anhydride, and cyclobutane or consists of the groups, and G=C(RF)uHvFw where u+v+w=3 and n=1-4.