Disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to solve the technical problem of providing an electron-transporting blue luminescent material which is used in an organic electroluminescent device, can meet the requirements of full-color OLED display, and has high color purity and high efficiency, and an application thereof.
The technical scheme for solving the technical problems is as follows: an electron-transporting blue light-emitting material has a structural formula shown in formula 1:
in the formula 1, the compound is shown in the specification,
wherein R is1~R8Selected from hydrogen radical or (C)1~C30) Any one of alkyl groups;
ar is one of the groups of the structure shown in formula 2:
in the formula (2), the first and second groups,
wherein R is selected from any one of the following groups:
hydrogen, alkyl of any length; or,
a group of aromatic compounds of benzene, biphenyl, naphthalene, anthracene, phenanthrene, or pyrene; or,
heterocyclic groups derived from aromatic groups.
Further, preferably, R represents hydrogen、C1~C30Any one of alkyl, benzene, biphenyl, naphthalene, anthracene, phenanthrene, pyrene, furan, thiophene, pyrrole, pyridine, pyran, quinoline, indole or carbazole groups.
The invention has the beneficial effects that:
1. the material is characterized in that an aromatic compound or an aromatic heterocycle is connected to the 9 th site of acridine, aromatic rings are mutually twisted and arranged due to higher steric hindrance, the whole molecule is in a non-planar structure, aggregation and interaction among molecules are avoided, and a wider band gap is provided. In addition, the acridine group has a unique nitrogen-containing tricyclic structure, so that the acridine group has high fluorescence quantum efficiency and electron transport performance.
2. The material has good thermal stability, and high glass transition temperature and decomposition temperature.
3. The material has good electroluminescent characteristic, and can be used as a luminescent layer of a blue organic electroluminescent device to obtain blue light emission with high color purity and efficiency.
5. The material can be used as a doping main body material of a blue luminescent material and has the potential of red and green application.
The preparation method of the electron-transporting blue luminescent material comprises the following steps:
the compound shown in the formula 1 is prepared by carrying out Suzuki reaction on 2, 7-dibromospirofluorene, substituted 3, 6-dibromocarbazole and substituted 2, 7-dibromofluorene and substituted 9-acridine boric acid.
Wherein in the step, the Suzuki reaction is carried out under the protection of nitrogen or other inert gases by using Pd (PPh)3)4Or palladium acetate is used as a catalyst, and the reflux reaction is carried out for 12 to 36 hours at the temperature of 80 to 100 ℃.
The invention preferably selects compounds 1-9 as representative materials, and the structural formulas of the compounds are shown as follows:
the invention synthesizes a series of new compounds based on acridine group, the acridine group has the performance of some fluorescent dyes due to the unique nitrogen-containing tricyclic structure, the molecular conjugation degree of the acridine group is enlarged by introducing spirofluorene, carbazole or fluorene group with larger conjugation structure, the vitrification temperature is improved, the molecular thermal stability is increased, in addition, the acridine group is a typical electron-deficient system and has good electron-accepting capability, so the electron-transporting blue luminescent material provided by the invention has good photoelectric property.
The invention takes the compounds 1 and 9 as examples, and also provides an application example of the electron-transporting blue luminescent material in the field of organic electroluminescence. The prepared blue organic electroluminescent device generally comprises an ITO conductive glass substrate (anode), a hole transport layer [ N, N ' -diphenyl-N, N ' - (1-naphthyl) -1,1' -biphenyl-4, 4' -diamine (NPB) ], a luminescent layer [ used alone or doped with 9,9' - (1, 3-phenyl) di-9H-carbazole (MCP) ], an electron transport layer [1,3, 5-tri (1-phenyl-1H-benzimidazole-2-yl) benzene (TPBI) ], an electron injection Layer (LiF) and a cathode layer (Al) which are sequentially stacked. All functional layers can adopt vacuum evaporation or solution film forming process. The molecular structural formulae of some of the organic compounds used in the device are shown below:
of course, the functional layer of the device of the present invention is not limited to the use of the above materials, and these materials may be replaced with other materials, for example, the hole transport layer may be replaced with N, N '-diphenyl-N, N' -bis (3-methylphenyl) -1,1 '-biphenyl-4, 4' -diamine (TPD), etc., and the electron transport layer may be replaced with 1,3, 5-tris (1-phenyl-1H-benzimidazol-2-yl) benzene (TPBI), tris (8-hydroxyquinoline) aluminum (Alq3),4, 7-diphenyl-1, 10-phenanthroline (BPhen), etc. The molecular structural formula of the above material is as follows:
Detailed Description
The principles and features of this invention are described below in conjunction with the following drawings, which are set forth by way of illustration only and are not intended to limit the scope of the invention.
Examples of compound sample preparation:
example 12, 7-diaziridine (Compound 1)
Into a three-necked flask were charged 1.19g of 2, 7-dibromospirofluorene (2.5 mmol) and 1.77g of 9-acridineboronic acid (7.5 mmol), which were dissolved in a mixed solventHydrolysis (70 mL toluene, 35mL ethanol) followed by 50mL Na2CO3The aqueous solution (2M) was stirred with nitrogen for 1 hour to remove oxygen from the reaction flask. Then Pd (PPh) is added3)40.183g (0.16 mmol) are refluxed with vigorous stirring, and the course of the reaction is controlled by thin-layer chromatography. After 24 hours of reaction, 50mL of deionized water was added to the reaction mixture, insoluble matter was removed by filtration, the aqueous phase and the organic phase were separated, the aqueous phase was extracted with dichloromethane (20 mL × 3), the organic phase was mixed and then concentrated to about 5mL by distillation under reduced pressure, separation was performed by column chromatography, and the eluent was dichloromethane: n-hexane =1:5 (volume ratio), whereby 1.45g of a yellow solid (the objective product) was obtained. The crude product was purified by sublimation to give 0.96g of pure product (57% yield).
MS (m/z): 670.3. Elemental analysis (C)51H30N2): theoretical values of C91.32, H4.51, N4.18, found values of C91.55, H4.30, N4.05.
Example 22, 7-bis (1, 2,3,4,5,6,7, 8-octamethylazedinyl) spirofluorene (Compound 2)
Prepared by the synthetic method of compound 1 in example 1 starting with 2, 7-dibromospirofluorene and 1,2,3,4,5,6,7, 8-octamethyl-9-acridinium boronic acid.
MS (m/z) 894.6. Elemental analysis (C)67H62N2): 89.89 theoretical values of C, 6.98 theoretical values of H, 3.13 theoretical values of N, 89.65 practical values of H, 3.21 theoretical values of N, and 3.08 theoretical values of N.
Example 33, 6-Diazepinylcarbazole (Compound 3)
The compound 1 of example 1 was synthesized using 3, 6-dibromocarbazole and 9-acridineboronic acid as starting materials.
MS (m/z): 521.8. Elemental analysis (C)38H23N3): theoretical values of C87.50, H4.44, N8.06, found values of C87.56, H4.31, N8.12.
Example 4N-methyl-3, 6-diaziridylcarbazole (Compound 4)
Prepared by the synthesis method of the compound 1 in the example 1 by using N-methyl-3, 6-dibromocarbazole and 9-acridine boric acid as starting materials.
MS (m/z) 535.7. Elemental analysis (C)39H25N3): theoretical values of C87.45, H4.70, N7.84, found values of C87.66, H4.84, N7.72.
Example 5N-phenyl-3, 6-diaziridylcarbazole (Compound 5)
Prepared by the synthesis method of the compound 1 in the example 1 by using N-phenyl-3, 6-dibromocarbazole and 9-acridineboronic acid as starting materials.
MS (m/z): 597.3. Elemental analysis (C)44H27N3): theoretical values C88.42, H4.55, N7.03, found C88.38, H4.47, N7.12.
Example 72, 7-diaziridine (Compound 7)
Prepared by the synthetic method of compound 1 in example 1 using 2, 7-dibromofluorene and 9-acridineboronic acid as starting materials.
MS (m/z) 520.6. Elemental analysis (C)39H24N2): 89.97 theoretical values of C, 4.65 theoretical values of H, 5.38 theoretical values of N, 89.78 practical values of H, 4.67 theoretical values of N, 5.43 theoretical values of N.
Example 82, 7-diaziridyl-9, 9-dimethylfluorene (Compound 8)
Prepared by the synthetic method of compound 1 in example 1 using 2, 7-dibromo-9, 9-dimethylfluorene and 9-acridineboronic acid as starting materials.
MS (m/z): 548.9. Elemental analysis (C)41H28N2): 89.75 for theoretical value C, 5.14 for H, 5.11 for N, 89.80 for observed value C, 5.05 for H, 5.07 for N.
Example 92, 7-diaziridyl-9, 9-diphenylfluorene (Compound 9)
The compound 1 of example 1 was synthesized using 2, 7-dibromo-9, 9-diphenylfluorene and 9-acridineboronic acid as starting materials.
MS (m/z): 672.8. Elemental analysis (C)51H32N2): theoretical values of C91.04, H4.79, N4.16, found values of C91.00, H4.84, N4.08.
Organic electroluminescent device example:
device example 1 use of Compound 1 as a light-emitting layer in an organic electroluminescent device
This example prepares an electron-transporting blue organic electroluminescent device as follows:
a) cleaning of ITO (indium tin oxide) glass: respectively ultrasonically cleaning ITO glass by deionized water, acetone and ethanol for 15 minutes, and then treating the ITO glass in a plasma cleaner for 2 minutes;
b) vacuum evaporation or solution film formation is carried out on the anode ITO glass to form a hole transport layer NPB with the thickness of 50 nm;
c) vacuum evaporating a luminescent layer compound 1 on the hole transport layer NPB, wherein the thickness of the luminescent layer compound 1 is 30 nm;
d) vacuum evaporating an electron transport layer TPBI with the thickness of 30nm on the light-emitting layer;
e) vacuum evaporating an electron injection layer LiF on the electron transport layer TPBI, wherein the thickness of the electron injection layer LiF is 1 nm;
f) and vacuum evaporating cathode Al on the electron injection layer LiF, wherein the thickness of the cathode Al is 100 nm.
The structure of the device is ITO/NPB (50 nm)/compound 1(30nm)/TPBI (30nm)/LiF (1nm)/Al (100 nm). The voltage-current density-luminance curve of the device using the compound 1 prepared in example 1 as the light emitting layer of the device is shown in fig. 1, and the current density-power efficiency-lumen efficiency curve is shown in fig. 2. The starting voltage of the device is 5.5V, and the maximum brightness reaches 3136cd/m2The maximum current efficiency reached 0.44 cd/A. FIG. 3 shows the device at 100cd/m2The CIE coordinate of the electroluminescence spectrum of (0.1)8,0.14)。
Device example 2 use of Compound 9 as a light-emitting layer in an organic electroluminescent device
This example prepares an electron-transporting blue organic electroluminescent device as follows:
a) cleaning of ITO (indium tin oxide) glass: respectively ultrasonically cleaning ITO glass by deionized water, acetone and ethanol for 15 minutes, and then treating the ITO glass in a plasma cleaner for 2 minutes;
b) vacuum evaporation or solution film formation is carried out on the anode ITO glass to form a hole transport layer NPB with the thickness of 50 nm;
c) vacuum evaporating a luminescent layer compound 9 on the hole transport layer NPB, wherein the thickness of the luminescent layer compound is 30 nm;
d) vacuum evaporating an electron transport layer TPBI with the thickness of 30nm on the light-emitting layer;
e) vacuum evaporating an electron injection layer LiF on the electron transport layer TPBI, wherein the thickness of the electron injection layer LiF is 1 nm;
f) and vacuum evaporating cathode Al on the electron injection layer LiF, wherein the thickness of the cathode Al is 100 nm.
The structure of the device is ITO/NPB (50 nm)/compound 9(30nm)/TPBI (30nm)/LiF (1nm)/Al (100 nm). The voltage-current density-luminance curve of the device with the compound 9 as the light emitting layer is shown in fig. 4, and the current density-power efficiency-lumen efficiency curve is shown in fig. 5. The starting voltage of the device is 4.5V, and the maximum brightness reaches 6860cd/m2The maximum current efficiency is improved to 0.951 cd/A. FIG. 6 shows the device at 100cd/m2The CIE coordinates of the electroluminescence spectrum of (0.15, 0.12).
The above description is only for the purpose of illustrating the preferred embodiments of the present invention and is not to be construed as limiting the invention, and any modifications, equivalents, improvements and the like that fall within the spirit and principle of the present invention are intended to be included therein.