化学所分子识别与功能实验室

Stable Enantiomers Displaying Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence: Efficient OLEDs with Circularly Polarized Electroluminescence

Date:2018-08-13 10:14:48.0 Enlarge Narrow

Meng Li, Si-Hua Li, Dongdong Zhang, Minghan Cai, Lian Duan, Man-Keung Fung,* Chuan-Feng Chen*

Aromatic‐imide‐based thermally activated delayed fluorescent (TADF) enantiomers, (+)‐(S,S)‐CAICz and (−)‐(R,R)‐CAICz, were efficiently synthesized by introducing a chiral 1,2‐diaminocyclohexane to the achiral TADF unit. The TADF enantiomers exhibited high PLQYs of up to 98 %, small ΔEST values of 0.06 eV, as well as obvious temperature‐dependent transient PL spectra, thus demonstrating their excellent TADF properties. Moreover, the TADF enantiomers showed mirror‐image CD and CPL activities. Notably, the CP‐OLEDs with CPEL properties based on the TADF enantiomers not only achieved high EQE values of up to 19.7 and 19.8 %, but also displayed opposite CPEL signals with gEL values of −1.7×10−3 and 2.3×10−3, which represents the first CP‐OLEDs, based on the enantiomerically pure TADF materials, having both high efficiencies and intense CPEL.

 

This work has been published in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 201857, 2889–2893.