Exploiting heterocycle aromaticity to fabricate new hot exciton materials

Shaoting Guo; Long Wang; Qianqian Deng; Guoliang Wang; Xiangbin Tian; Xiyu Wang; Zuyuan Liu; Mengfan Zhang; Senhao Wang; Yanqin Miao; Jun Zhu; Hua Wang

doi:10.1039/D3TC01192E

Exploiting heterocycle aromaticity to fabricate new hot exciton materials†

Shaoting Guo,^a Long Wang,

*^a Qianqian Deng,^b Guoliang Wang,^a Xiangbin Tian,^a Xiyu Wang,^a Zuyuan Liu,^a Mengfan Zhang,^a Senhao Wang,^a Yanqin Miao,

*^a Jun Zhu

*^b and Hua Wang

*^a

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^a Key Laboratory of Interface Science and Engineering in Advanced Materials, Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan 030024, China
E-mail: wanglong@tyut.edu.cn, miaoyanqin@tyut.edu.cn, wanghua001@tyut.edu.cn

^b State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces and Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry forEnergy Materials (iChEM), Fujian Provincial Key Laboratoryof Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, and Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China
E-mail: jun.zhu@xmu.edu.cn

Abstract

Efficiently harvesting electroluminescent triplet excitons is of great importance for practical applications of organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs). Hot exciton materials are regarded as the up-and-coming new generation luminogens and hold unique advantages for achieving high efficiency electroluminescent devices. Therefore, exploring a new molecular design strategy for developing new hot exciton materials remains a challenging yet fascinating task so far. In the current contribution, we present a novel design strategy for exploiting heterocycle aromaticity to fabricate new hot exciton materials from both theoretical and experimental perspectives. By virtue of heterocycle aromaticity and peripheral functionalization, molecular excited state energetics could be rationally modulated to achieve the desired energy gaps of singlet–triplet and triplet–triplet states and consequently facilitate a reverse intersystem crossing process from high-lying excited states and suppress possible energy loss pathways. On the strength of such a strategy, a series of new blue-emitting hot exciton materials based on non-aromatic pyrazoline derivatives was successfully fabricated and subsequently applied to OLED devices with EQE_max of 5.03%. These outcomes not only presented a series of new electroluminescent triplet-harvesting materials but also provided a practicable strategy for designing, screening and developing new generation luminogens for OLED applications.

Journal of Materials Chemistry C

Exploiting heterocycle aromaticity to fabricate new hot exciton materials†

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