Synthesis, characterization, physical properties, and applications of highly fluorescent pyrene-functionalized 9,9-bis(4-diarylaminophenyl)fluorene in organic light-emitting diodes

A new, highly fluorescent pyrene-functionalized 9,9-bis(4-diarylaminophenyl)fluorene, namely PTF, was synthesized and characterized. This material is an amorphous molecular glass with notably high T_g, is electrochemically stable, and exhibits strong blue emission both in solution and solid state. It shows promising ability as a solution processed blue emitter and hole-transporter for OLEDs. High-efficiency sky-blue and Alq3-based green devices with luminance efficiencies of 1.13 and 4.08 cd/A are achieved, respectively.     

Synthesis and characterization of high Tg carbazole-based amorphous hole-transporting materials for organic light-emitting devices

Novel hole-transporting materials based on carbazole dendrimers, namely G1CBC and G2CBC were synthesized and characterized. They are thermally stable with high glass transition temperatures (T_g) up to 245 °C and exhibit chemically-stable redox processes. Double-layer green OLEDs using these materials as the hole-transporting layer (HTL) with the device configuration of ITO/HTL/Alq3/LiF:Al emit brightly (λ_em 522-534 nm) from the Alq3 layer with a maximum luminance and low turn-on voltage of 15,890 cd/m² and 3.0 V, respectively. Their ability as HTLs in terms of device performance is comparable to the common hole-transporter N,N′-diphenyl-N,N′-bis(1-naphthyl)-(1,1′-biphenyl)-4,4′-diamine (NPB), however their thermal properties were far greater than both NPB and N,N′-bis(3-methylphenyl)-N,N′-bis(phenyl)benzidine (TPD).     

Coumarin-cored carbazole dendrimers as solution-processed non-doped green emitters for electroluminescent devices

A series of green-emitting thiophenyl coumarin-cored carbazole dendrimers containing carbazole dendrons up to the third generation as substituent were synthesized and characterization. Their optical, thermal, electrochemical, and electroluminescent properties as non-doped solution-processed light-emitters for OLEDs were investigated. By incorporating carbazole dendrons in the molecule, we are able to reduce the crystallization and retain the high emissive ability of a planar thiophenyl coumarin fluorescent core in the solid state as well as improve the thermal stability of the material. These dendrimers showed a bright-green fluorescence and can form morphologically stable amorphous thin films with glass-transition temperatures as high as 285 °C. Simple structured solution-processed OLEDs using these materials as hole-transporting non-doped emitters and BCP as a buffer layer emit a stable green electroluminescence (λ_EL=502–526 nm) with high luminance efficiencies (up to 7.92 cd/A at 7.39 mA/cm²) and high green color purity (CIE=0.26, 0.62, which are close to the pure green color).     

Green-synthesized,low-cost tetracyanodiazafluorene (TCAF) as electron injection material for organic light-emitting diodes

As facile,green,low-cost as possible:One more electron-deficient azaacene (TCAF) with deep LUMO (-4.52 eV), strong electronic affinity,excellent yield,and simple purification procedure was successfully created and explored as good electron injection material.It is believed TCAF would be a promising and pervasive acceptor material and bring in more significant achievements to green and sustainable organic electronics including OLEDs,OFETs,OPVs, and perovskite solar cells,etc.     

基于N-对甲氧苯基咔唑-2-乙烯基-8-羟基喹啉锌的白色和黄色有机电致发光器件的性能

通过研究新型荧光染料N-对甲氧苯基咔唑-2-乙烯基-8-羟基喹啉锌(MoBCzHQZn)的电致发光(EL)特性, 发现MoBCzHQZn具有较强的发光特性和空穴传输特性, 利用此特性制备了非掺杂型的有机电致白光器件和掺杂型的有机电致黄光器件. 白光器件的结构为ITO/2T-NATA(20 nm)/MoBCzHQZn(25 nm)/NPBX(13 nm)/BCP(8nm)/Alq3(34 nm)/LiF(0.5 nm)/Al, 器件在15 V电压下实现了白光发射, 色坐标为(0.3719, 0.3275), 最大发光亮度为3414 cd·m-2, 在14 V 电压下的最大发光效率为1.69 cd·A-1、黄光器件的结构为ITO/2T-NATA(20 nm)/CBP:6%Ir(ppy)3:10%MoBCzHQZn(25 nm)/TPBi:6%Ir(ppy)3(47 nm)/LiF(0.5 nm)/Al, 器件在15 V电压下实现了黄绿光发射, 色坐标为(0.3590, 0.5787), 最大发光亮度为11073 cd·m-2, 在9 V电压下的最大发光效率为2.51 cd·A-1.     

Green-synthesized,low-cost tetracyanodiazafluorene (TCAF) as electron injection material for organic light-emitting diodes

Two electron-deficient azaacenes including di- and tetra-cyanodiazafluorene (DCAF and TCAF) with the advantages of deep lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (LUMO), green-synthesis, low-cost, simply purification method, excellent yields have been obtained, characterized and used as electron injection materials (EIMs) in three groups of electroluminescence devices. Device B with TCAF as EIM exhibited the best performance including turn-on voltage of 5.0 V, stronger maximum luminance intensity of 31,549 cd/m², higher luminance efficiency of 62.34 cd/A and larger power efficiency of 21.74 lm/W which are 0.53, 6.7, 9.3 and 15.3 times than that of device A with DCAF as EIMs, respectively. The enhanced interfacial electron injection ability of TCAF than that of DCAF is supported by its better electron mobility in electron-only device, deeper LUMO (-4.52 eV), and stronger electronic affinity. Best external quantum efficiency of 16.56% was achieved with optimized thicknesses of TCAF as EIM and TPBi as electron transporting layer. As a new comer of acceptor family, TCAF would push forward organic electronics with more fascinating and significant applications.     

4-咔唑基-N-（3,′4′-二甲苯基）-1,8-萘二甲酰亚胺作为电子传输材料的实验和理论研究（英文）

通过乌尔曼偶联反应合成了一种新颖的萘胺-咔唑分子,4-咔唑基-N-（3,′4′-二甲苯基）-1,8-萘二甲酰亚胺（CNP）.运用量子化学中的密度泛函理论（TD-DFT）,在B3LYP/6-31（d）水平上对化合物在阴离子、阳离子、中性状态下进行了结构全优化,得到了化合物的总能量、HOMO能级、LUMO能级、电离能和电子亲合势.理论计算了化合物的紫外吸收光谱和红外光谱.紫外吸收光谱、红外光谱、HOMO能级和LUMO能级数值与实验值高度一致.在理论上分析了化合物作为电致发光材料的可能性,化合物CNP是一种很好的电子传输材料.     

Efficient Synthesis of Bis(4-Dimethaminophenyl)arylmethanes and Bis(4-Diamethaminophenyl)alkanes Using Iodine Reagent

A novel synthetic utility of NaICl₂ for the preparation of bis(4-dimethaminophenyl)arylmethanes and bis(4-dimethaminophenyl)alkanes is described. In the presence of an aqueous solution of NaICl₂, the reaction of arenes with aromatic aldehydes gives corresponding triarylmethane derivatives regioselectively in moderate to good yields. The method is also useful for the preparation of diarylalkane derivatives by using aliphatic aldehydes.

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Four-coordinate boron compounds derived from 2-(2-pyridyl)phenol ligand as novel hole-blocking materials for phosphorescent OLEDs

Four-coordinate boron compounds of Ph₂B · 1 (2) and (C₆F₅)₃B(1 · H) (3) were prepared from the reaction of 2-(2-pyridyl)phenol (1 · H) ligand with triarylborane starting materials, BPh₃ and B(C₆F₅)₃, respectively, and tested as hole-blocking layer (HBL) materials in phosphorescent OLEDs. While the crystal structure of 2 reveals the pseudo-tetrahedral geometry around the boron center with bidentate [N,O] chelation by 1, 3 is characterized as the zwitterionic four-coordinate system where the ligand 1 · H acts as monodentate [O] chelator with N-protonation. UV-Vis absorption and PL spectra of 2 and 3 are consistent with the ligand-centered, HOMO-LUMO electronic transitions with charge transfer from a phenoxide ring to a pyridine, which was further supported by time dependent DFT calculation for 2. Both compounds are found to possess the HOMO-LUMO energy gap of 3.1 eV appropriate for hole-blocking materials for phosphorescent OLEDs. The devices incorporating 2 and 3 as HBL materials displayed stable green phosphorescence of Ir(ppy)₃ (ppy = 2-phenylpyridine) with low turn-on voltage of 3.2 and 3.4 V, respectively, indicating that 2 and 3 function as HBL materials. Although both devices show the short lifetime (<1 h) probably owing to the low thermal stability, the device based on 2 displays better performances in terms of luminance, power and luminance efficiency, and external quantum efficiency in a wide range of current densities (0.1-100 mA/cm²) than the reference device incorporating BAlq as HBL materials.     

Synthesis and blue light-emitting properties of 4,4''''-bis(diphenylamino)-quinque(p-phenyl)s

An excellent organic blue light-emitting diode based on 4,40-bis(diphenylamino)-quinque( p-phenylene)s (OPP(5)-NPh) with a maximum luminance of up to 5000 cd/m2 and a luminanous efficiency of 1.3 cd/A was reported. This diode was made by using a wide band-gap hole-blocking layer, F-TBB instead of PBD in the OLED devices. We attribute the good performance to the one trade-off involved in the use of F-TBB to obtain higher luminance is the increased turn-on voltages and slightly decreased device efficiencies.     

Pure red electrophosphorescence from polymer light-emitting diodes doped with highly emissive bis-cyclometalated iridium(III) complexes

In order to develop highly emissive red phosphorescent materials for OLED application, novel bis-cyclometalated iridium(III) complexes were developed using the 1-(dibenzo[b,d]furan-4-yl)isoquinolinato-N,C^3′ (dbfiq) cyclometalating ligand. When 1,3-bis(3,4-dibutoxyphenyl)propane-1,3-dionate (bdbp) is employed as an ancillary ligand, Ir(dbfiq)₂(bdbp) 1 exhibits red photoluminescence (PL) at 640 nm with a quantum yield (Φ_PL) of 0.61 (in toluene, 298 K). Replacement of bdbp to dipivaloylmethanate (dpm) and acetylacetonate (acac) (Ir(dbfiq)₂(dpm) 2 and Ir(dbfiq)₂(acac) 3, respectively) does not affect the PL spectrum, but reduces Φ_PL to 0.55 and 0.49 for 2 and 3, respectively. Similar tendency is also found in the doped poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) film, and 1 is more emissive (Φ_PL = 0.17) than 2 and 3 (Φ_PL = 0.08 and 0.06, respectively). Using 1 as a phosphorescent dopant, polymer light-emitting diodes (PLEDs) were fabricated, of which structure was ITO/PEDOT:PSS (40 nm)/PVCz:1:PBD (100 nm)/CsF (1 nm)/Al (250 nm). Pure red electroluminescence (EL) is obtained from the fabricated PLEDs, affording a CIE chromaticity coordinate of (0.68, 0.31). When 0.51 mol% of 1 is incorporated in the PVCz-based emitting layer, the PLED shows maximum luminance of 7270 cd m⁻² at 16.5 V, power efficiency of 1.4 lm W⁻¹ at 7.5 V, and external quantum efficiency of 6.4% at 9.0 V. PLEDs with the same structure and components were also fabricated using 2 and 3, and their device characteristics were investigated. In proportion to the PL quantum yields, 1 affords better device performance than 2 and 3. Owing to four butoxy groups introduced to the bdbp ligand, 1 exhibits high solubility in organic solvents such as chloroform and toluene, and thus, is an excellent red phosphorescent dopant for solution-processed OLEDs.     

Synthesis,characterization, and properties of novel bis(aryl)carbazole-containing N-coumarin derivatives

A series of novel N-coumarin derivatives containing oligothiophene-substituted N-coumarins as the core and bis(aryl)carbazoles as the substituent were synthesized and characterized. Their optical, electrochemical, and thermal properties were investigated. The electroluminescence (EL) properties of the selected materials were also studied. Solution-processed OLEDs with green and yellow light emission, turn-on voltages of 2.7–2.9 V, and maximum luminance efficiencies of up to 3.94 cd A⁻¹ at 17.6 mA cm⁻² (maximum power efficiency of 1.62 lm W⁻¹) were prepared.     

方酸衍生物的光敏性与结构关系的理论研究

The geometries of bis(4-dimethylaminophenyl)squaraine and its N and C-2 derivatives have been obtained by AMl and Gaussian 92.The relationship between their photosensitivties and geometries has been studied respectively. The linear relationships between oxidation Potential (EOX) of compounds 1-6 and their HOMO energy (EH), between the Photosensitivity (lgE0.5) of compound 1-5 and ΔET-GOX (the difference of the oxidation potential of charge-transporting material (CTM) and charge-generating material (CGM)), between lgE0.5 and ΔET-G (the difference of the HOMO energy of CGM and CTM) have been studied respectively by the least square fitting method. The result indicates that Eox and EH exhibit certain linearity (r=0.883), the correlation coefficient of lgE0.5 and ΔET-G (r=0.980) is greater than that of lgE0.5 and ET-GOX (r=0.883). It is concluded that the method of calculating the HOMO energy is better than that of detecting the oxidation potential during the study of QSAR of bis(4-dimethylaminophenyl)and its C-2 derivatives. According to the linear relationship obtained by AM1,bis(4-dimethylamino-2,6-fluorophenyl)squaraine has good photosensitivty.     

方酸衍生物的光敏性与结构关系的理论研究

量子化学方法早已成功地运用于探索药物分子的定量构效关系（QSAR）[1，2]，然而通过查阅近十几年的CA，发现用该方法进行有机光导材料（OPC）的QSAR研究工作甚少［3，4］．据推测，造成这种情况的原因是，影响OPC的光导性能的因素太多．例如，化合物的纯度、电行产生层（CGL）厚度、电行产生材料（CGM）与高分子粘结剂的配比、颗粒大小、结晶度、堆积方式、从CGL到电荷传输层（CTL）的空穴注人效率等．这么多的影响因素无疑是量子化学方法研究OPC的难点．随着大量OPCat合成出来及OPC研究的逐步深入，采用量子化学方法探讨化…     

Synthesis, optical, electrochemical, and thermal properties of α,α′-bis(9,9-bis-n-hexylfluorenyl)-substituted oligothiophenes

A series of new α,α′-bis(9,9-bis-n-hexylfluorenyl)-substituted oligothiophenes with 2-, 4-, and 6-thiophene rings have been synthesized via a nickel-catalyzed reductive dimerization and their optical, electrochemical, and thermal properties investigated. The fluorene substituents have shown electronic interactions with the oligothiophene chains, enhanced the solubility of these materials and stabilized the radical cation and dication by blocking the reactive α-positions of the thiophene moieties. The absorption, fluorescence, electrochemical, and thermal properties of these materials can be tuned by varying the conjugation length of the oligothiophene segment.     

双（1—乙酰基—4—取代苯甲酰基氨基硫脲）及其衍生物的合成

由丁二酰肼Ⅰ与取代苯甲酰基异硫氰酯在无水CaCl_2处理过的乙腈溶剂中亲核加成,制得一系列未知的双(1-乙酰基-4-取代苯甲酰基氨基硫脲)衍生物Ⅱ,Ⅱ在碱性条件下环化为未知的双(3-亚甲基-4-取代苯甲酰基-1,2,4-三唑啉-5-硫酮)Ⅲ ,所有化合物结构均经鉴定,部分化合物对枯草芽孢杆菌和大肠杆菌有抑制作用。     

The Solubility of Bis(cyclopentadienyl)samarium(II) and Implications for the Reaction of Samarium Metal with Bis(cyclopentadienyl)mercury(II)

Bis(cyclopentadienyl)samarium(II) has been shown to be insoluble in thf : ether mixtures, hence it cannot be isolated as a soluble product from the reaction of samarium with HgCp₂ in thf : ether.     

Bis(2-mercaptobenzoxazolato)mercury(II) and bis(2-pyridinethiolato)mercury(II) complexes as carriers for thiocyanate selective electrodes

Highly selective poly(vinyl chloride) (PVC) membrane electrodes based on bis(2-mercaptobenzoxazolato)mercury(II) [Hg(MBO)₂] and bis(2-pyridinethiolato)mercury(II) [Hg(PT)₂] complexes as new carriers for thiocyanate-selective electrodes are reported. The electrodes were prepared by coating the membrane solution containing PVC, plasticizer, carriers and additives on the surface of graphite electrodes. Influence of the membrane composition, pH and possible interfering anions were investigated on the response properties of the electrodes. Both sensors exhibited Nernstian responses towards thiocyanate over a wide concentration range of 1×10⁻⁶ to 0.1 M, with slopes of 60.6±0.8 and 57.5±1.2 mV per decade of thiocyanate concentration for Hg(MBO)₂ and Hg(PT)₂ carriers, respectively, over a wide pH range of 3-11. The limit of detection for both electrodes was ∼6×10⁻⁷ M. The sensors have response times of ≤5 s and can be used for at least 2 months without any considerable divergence in their potential response. The proposed electrodes show fairly good discrimination of thiocyanate over several inorganic and organic anions. The electrodes were successfully applied to direct determination of thiocyanate in saliva and as indicator electrodes in precipitation titrations.     

双-(2,4-二羟基苯乙酮)缩肼的合成及其与锶的荧光猝灭反应

合成了一种新的双席夫碱荧光试剂——双-(2,4-二羟基苯乙酮)缩肼。该试剂在491．2nm处有强荧光峰,当有锶离子存在时,可形成稳定的络合物而使试剂的荧光猝灭。利用此反应建立了一个荧光测定痕量锶的新方法,其线性范围为0．10—50．0μg/L,检出限0．056μg/L,方法成功地应用于矿泉水中痕量锶的测定。