Helen Benjamin
Unusual dual-emissive heteroleptic iridium complexes incorporating TADF cyclometalating ligands
Benjamin, Helen; Zheng, Yonghao; Kozhevnikov, Valery N.; Siddle, Jamie S.; O'Driscoll, Luke J.; Fox, Mark A.; Batsanov, Andrei S.; Griffiths, Gareth C.; Dias, Fernando B.; Monkman, Andrew P.; Bryce, Martin R.
Authors
Yonghao Zheng
Valery N. Kozhevnikov
Jamie S. Siddle
Dr Luke O'Driscoll luke.j.odriscoll@durham.ac.uk
Assistant Professor
Dr Mark Fox m.a.fox@durham.ac.uk
Assistant Professor
Dr Andrei Batsanov a.s.batsanov@durham.ac.uk
Academic Visitor
Gareth C. Griffiths
Dr Fernando Dias f.m.b.dias@durham.ac.uk
Associate Professor
Professor Andrew Monkman a.p.monkman@durham.ac.uk
Professor
Professor Martin Bryce m.r.bryce@durham.ac.uk
Professor
Abstract
Five new neutral heteroleptic iridium(III) complexes IrL2(pic) (2–6) based on the archetypical blue emitter FIrpic have been synthesised. The cyclometallating ligands L are derived from 2-(2,6-F2-3-pyridyl)-4-mesitylpyridine (7), 2-(3-cyano-2,6-F2-phenyl)-4-mesitylpyridine (8), 2-(2,6-F2-phenyl)-4-[2,7-(HexO)2-9H-carbazol-9-yl]pyridine (9), 2-(2,6-F2-3-pyridyl)-4-[2,7-(HexO)2-9H-carbazol-9-yl]pyridine (10) and 2-(3-cyano-2,6-F2-phenyl)-4-[2,7-(HexO)2-9H-carbazol-9-yl]pyridine (11) for complexes 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6, respectively. The carbazole-functionalised ligands 9–11 show weak thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) in solution. Complexes 5 and 6 reveal dual emission in polar solvents. A broad charge transfer (CT) band appears and increases in intensity relative to the higher energy emission band as solvent polarity is increased. The dual emission occurs when the energy of the ligand 3CT state is comparable to that of the 3MLCT state of the complex, resulting in fast interconversion between the two. Assignment of the ligand TADF and dual emission properties is supported by hybrid density functional theory (DFT) and time dependent DFT (TD-DFT) calculations. Phosphorescent organic light emitting devices (PhOLEDs) have been fabricated using these complexes as sky-blue emitters, and their performance is compared to devices using FIrpic and the previously reported complex IrL2(pic) 1 (L from the 2-(2,6-F2-phenyl)-4-mesitylpyridine ligand). For identical device structures, the device containing the carbazole complex 4 performs best out of the seven complexes. The dual emission observed in solution for complexes 5 and 6 is not observed in their devices.
Citation
Benjamin, H., Zheng, Y., Kozhevnikov, V. N., Siddle, J. S., O'Driscoll, L. J., Fox, M. A., …Bryce, M. R. (2020). Unusual dual-emissive heteroleptic iridium complexes incorporating TADF cyclometalating ligands. Dalton Transactions, 49(7), 2190-2208. https://doi.org/10.1039/c9dt04672k
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Jan 23, 2020 |
Online Publication Date | Jan 31, 2020 |
Publication Date | Feb 21, 2020 |
Deposit Date | Mar 5, 2020 |
Publicly Available Date | Jan 31, 2021 |
Journal | Dalton Transactions |
Print ISSN | 1477-9226 |
Electronic ISSN | 1477-9234 |
Publisher | Royal Society of Chemistry |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 49 |
Issue | 7 |
Pages | 2190-2208 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1039/c9dt04672k |
Public URL | https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1275147 |
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