Synthesis of Benzo[1,2-<i>b</i>:4,3-<i>b</i>′]dithiophene/triphenylamine Copolymers: Effects of Substituents on Optical and EL Properties
作者:Yosuke Nishide、Hideji Osuga、Kunihiro Iwata、Kazuhiko Tanaka、Hidefumi Sakamoto
DOI:10.1246/bcsj.81.1322
日期:2008.10.15
Benzo[1,2-b:4,3-b′]dithiophene/triphenylamine copolymers P-2eh (with no methyl substituents) and P-Me and P-2Me (with methyl substituents at triphenylamine sites) were synthesized by Stille coupling reactions. In the ground state, the methyl substituents at the ortho positions to the BDT unit on the triphenylamine (TPA) moiety in P-Me and P-2Me caused twisting of the polymer structure and clearly limited conjugation of the polymer backbones. However, in their excited states, all of these copolymers were shown to have planar structures, and almost the same emission maxima were observed. This result indicates that, in the excited states, π-conjugation of the polymer backbone results in the adoption of a more stable planar structure rather than the twisted structure observed in the ground state. The maximum EL efficiencies of devices based on P-Me and P-2Me were about three times higher than that of P-2eh due to restricted π-stacking/aggregation of the conjugated copolymers in the solid state and improvements in thermal and electrochemical stability.
通过 Stille 偶联反应合成了苯并[1,2-b:4,3-b′]二噻吩/三苯胺共聚物 P-2eh(无甲基取代基)以及 P-Me 和 P-2Me(三苯胺位点上有甲基取代基)。在基态,P-Me 和 P-2Me 中位于三苯胺 (TPA) 分子上 BDT 单元正交位置的甲基取代基导致聚合物结构扭曲,并明显限制了聚合物骨架的共轭。然而,在激发态下,所有这些共聚物都显示出平面结构,并观察到几乎相同的发射最大值。这一结果表明,在激发态下,聚合物骨架的π-共轭会导致采用更稳定的平面结构,而不是在基态下观察到的扭曲结构。基于 P-Me 和 P-2Me 的器件的最大电致发光效率比 P-2eh 高出约三倍,这是因为共轭共聚物在固态下的π堆积/聚合受到了限制,而且热稳定性和电化学稳定性也得到了改善。