Triplet Energy Back Transfer in Conjugated Polymers with Pendant Phosphorescent Iridium Complexes

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Evans, Nicholas R. ; Devi, Lekshmi Sudha ; Mak, Chris S. K. ; Watkins, Scott E. ; Pascu, Sofia I. ; Köhler, Anna ; Friend, Richard H. ; Williams, Charlotte K. ; Holmes, Andrew B.:
Triplet Energy Back Transfer in Conjugated Polymers with Pendant Phosphorescent Iridium Complexes.
In: Journal of the American Chemical Society. Vol. 128 (2006) Issue 20 . - pp. 6647-6656.
ISSN 1520-5126
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/ja0584267

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The nature of Dexter triplet energy transfer between bonded systems of a red phosphorescent iridium complex 13 and a conjugated polymer, polyfluorene, has been investigated in electrophosphorescent organic light-emitting diodes. Red-emitting phosphorescent iridium complexes based on the [Ir(btp)2(acac)] fragment (where btp is 2-(2‘-benzo[b]thienyl)pyridinato and acac is acetylacetonate) have been attached either directly (spacerless) or through a −(CH2)8− chain (octamethylene-tethered) at the 9-position of a 9-octylfluorene host. The resulting dibromo-functionalized spacerless (8) or octamethylene-tethered (12) fluorene monomers were chain extended by Suzuki polycondensations using the bis(boronate)-terminated fluorene macromonomers 16 in the presence of end-capping chlorobenzene solvent to produce the statistical spacerless (17) and octamethylene-tethered (18) copolymers containing an even dispersion of the pendant phosphorescent fragments. The spacerless monomer 12 adopts a face-to-face conformation with a separation of only 3.6 Å between the iridium complex and fluorenyl group, as shown by X-ray analysis of a single crystal, and this facilitates intramolecular triplet energy transfer in the spacerless copolymers 17. The photo- and electroluminescence efficiencies of the octamethylene-tethered copolymers 18 are double those of the spacerless copolymers 17, and this is consistent with suppression of the back transfer of triplets from the red phosphorescent iridium complex to the polyfluorene backbone in 18. The incorporation of a −(CH2)8− chain between the polymer host and phosphorescent guest is thus an important design principle for achieving higher efficiencies in those electrophosphorescent organic light-emitting diodes for which the triplet energy levels of the host and guest are similar.

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Item Type:	Article in a journal
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Institutions of the University:	Faculties > Faculty of Mathematics, Physics und Computer Science > Department of Physics > Chair Experimental Physics II - Optoelectronics of Soft Matter > Chair Experimental Physics II - Optoelectronics of Soft Matter - Univ.-Prof. Dr. Anna Köhler Faculties Faculties > Faculty of Mathematics, Physics und Computer Science Faculties > Faculty of Mathematics, Physics und Computer Science > Department of Physics Faculties > Faculty of Mathematics, Physics und Computer Science > Department of Physics > Chair Experimental Physics II - Optoelectronics of Soft Matter
Result of work at the UBT:	No
DDC Subjects:	500 Science > 530 Physics
Date Deposited:	10 Mar 2015 12:36
Last Modified:	25 Mar 2015 12:15
URI:	https://eref.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/7978