Red to blue emitting cationic iridium complexes with 2-phenyl-4-dimethylaminopyridine as the cyclometalating ligand: Synthesis, characterization and electroluminescent devices

Add time:08/02/2019    Source:sciencedirect.com

2-Phenyl-4-dimethylaminopyridine (dmappy) with high 3π-π∗ triplet energy is, for the first time, employed as the cyclometalating ligand for constructing cationic iridium complexes with tunable emission properties. Three complexes, namely, [Ir(dmappy)2(bpy)]PF6 (1), [Ir(dmappy)2(pzpy)]PF6 (2) and [Ir(dmappy)2(dma-pzpy)]PF6 (3), have been designed and synthesized (bpy = 2, 2′-bipyridine, pzpy = 2-(1H-pyrazol-1-yl)pyridine and dma-pzpy = 4-dimethylamino-2-(1H-pyrazol-1-yl)pyridine), and their photophysical and electrochemical properties have been comprehensively investigated. By using ancillary ligands with increasing electron-richness (bpy → pzpy → dmapzpy), complexes 1–3 emit red, green and blue light, respectively. Theoretical calculations reveal that for complexes 1 and 2, the light emission stems predominantly from the charge-transfer states (Ir/dmappy → bpy or pzpy), whereas for complex 3, the light emission originates mainly from the dmappy-centered 3π-π∗ state. In the doped film, fluorine-free complex 3 affords comparable emission color, luminescent efficiency and excited-state lifetime to the typical blue-emitting, neutral iridium complex FIrpic that uses fluorinated ligands. Single-layer, solution-processed organic light-emitting diodes based on complex 3 affords blue electroluminescence (EL) peaked at 472 nm, with the EL color competing with that from FIrpic and the peak current efficiency (12.6 cd A−1) being among the highest reported for single-layer, solution-processed blue OLEDs based on ionic iridium complexes.

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