By fusing an electron-deficient ring system with the phenyl ring of a 2-phenylpyridine (ppy)-type ligand, a new and synthetically versatile strategy for the phosphorescence color tuning of cyclometalated iridium(III) and platinum(II) metallophosphors has been established. Two robust red electrophosphors with enhanced electron-injection/electron-transporting features were prepared by using an electron-trapping fluoren-9-one chromophore in the ligand design. The thermal, photophysical, redox and electrophosphorescent properties of these complexes are reported. These exciting results can be attributed to a switch of the metal-to-ligand charge-transfer (MLCT) character of the transition from the pyridyl groups in the traditional IrIII or PtII ppy-type complexes to the electron-deficient ring core, and the spectral assignments corroborate well with the electrochemical data as well as the time-dependent density functional theory (TD-DFT) calculations. The electron-withdrawing character of the fused ring results in much more stable MLCT states, inducing a substantial red-shift of the triplet emission energy from yellow to red for the IrIII complex and even green to red for the PtII counterpart. Electrophosphorescent organic light-emitting devices (OLEDs) doped with these red emitters fabricated by using vacuum evaporation technique have been realized with reasonable performance.
通过将一个缺电子的环体系与
2-苯基吡啶(ppy)型
配体的苯基环结合,建立了一种新的合成多样性策略,用于调节环
金属化的
铱(III)和
铂(II)
金属
磷光体的
磷光颜色。通过在
配体设计中使用电子捕获的
芴-9-酮
染料,制备了两种具有增强电子注入/电子传输特性的坚
固红色电致
磷光体。这些复合物的热性能、光物理性质、氧化还原特性和电致
磷光特性得到了报道。这些激动人心的结果可以归因于
金属-
配体电荷转移(MLCT)特性从传统的IrIII或PtII ppy型络合物中的
吡啶基转移到缺电子的环核心的变化,光谱归属与电
化学数据以及时间依赖密度泛函理论(TD-DFT)计算结果很好地相符。连接的环的吸电子特性导致更稳定的MLCT态,使IrIII络合物的三重态发射能量从黄色显著红移到红色,而PtII对应物则从绿色红移到红色。使用真空蒸发技术制造的掺杂这些红色发射体的电致
磷光有机发光二极管(OLED)已实现了理想的性能。