Benzoate-based Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Materials

Overview

Journal RSC Adv

Publisher Royal Society of Chemistry

Specialty Chemistry

Date 2023 Jul 17

PMID 37456544

Authors

Liang Zhang

Wenjing Zhu

Kangkang Gao

Yun Wu

Yani Lu

Chao Shuai

Penghui Zhang

Huicheng Li

Chuan-Feng Chen

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Abstract

Compounds PTZ-MBZ (methyl 3-(10-phenothiazin-10-yl)benzoate) and DMAC-MBZ (methyl 3-(9,9-dimethylacridin-10(9)-yl)benzoate) were conveniently synthesized, and they exhibited TADF properties with lifetimes of 0.80 and 2.17 μs, respectively. The spatially separated highest occupied molecular orbital and lowest unoccupied molecular orbital resulted in a very small singlet-triplet energy gap of 0.0152 eV and 0.0640 eV, respectively. Thermally activated delayed fluorescence materials with short lifetime could be used as promising luminescent materials for organic light-emitting diodes.

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