Metal compounds, methods, and uses thereof

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10622571-B2
Application number	US-201815882358-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 29, 2018
Priority date	Sep 24, 2012
Publication date	Apr 14, 2020
Grant date	Apr 14, 2020

Abstract

Disclosed herein are metal compounds useful in devices, such as, for example, OLEDs.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A compound having one of the following structures:

wherein:
M represents Pt, Pd, Au, Ir, Rh, Ru, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, Ag, Hg, Cd, or Zr;

represents one of:

each of V, V 1 , and V 2 , if present, independently represents N, C, CH, P, B, Si, or SiH, valency permitting;
each of A, A 1 , X, X 1 , Y, Y 1 , Z, Z 1 , and U, if present, independently represents O, S, S═O, SO 2 , Se, N, NR 3 , P, PR 3 , R 1 P═O, C, CR 1 R 2 , C═O, SiR 1 R 2 , GeR 1 R 2 , B, BH, P(O)H, PH, NH, CR 1 H, CH, CH 2 , Si, SiH, SiH 2 , SiHR 1 , BH, or BR 3 , valency permitting, or any one of

each of R, R 1 , R 2 , R 3 , R 4 , R 5 , and R 6 , if present, independently represents deuterium, halogen, hydroxyl, thiol, nitro, cyano, nitrile, isonitrile, sulfinyl, mercapto, sulfo, carboxyl, hydrazino; substituted or unsubstituted: aryl, cycloalkyl, cycloalkenyl, heterocyclyl, heteroaryl, alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, amino, monoalkylamino, dialkylamino, monoarylamino, diarylamino, alkoxy, aryloxy, haloalkyl, aralkyl, ester, alkoxycarbonyl, acylamino, alkoxycarbonylamino, aryloxycarbonylamino, sulfonylamino, sulfamoyl, carbamoyl, alkylthio, ureido, phosphoramide, silyl, polymeric; or any conjugate or combination thereof; and

each of m, n, o, p, q, and r is independently is an integer of 0 to 4, valency permitting.

2. The compound of claim 1 , wherein at least one of V, V 1 , and V 2 , if present, represents N.

3. The compound of claim 1 , wherein the compound comprises at least one phenyl group and at least one pyridinyl group.

4. The compound of claim 1 , wherein M represents Pt or Pd.

5. The compound of claim 4 , wherein M represents Pt.

6. A device comprising the compound of claim 1 .

7. The device of claim 6 , wherein the device is a full color display.

8. The device of claim 6 , wherein the device is an organic light emitting diode.

9. The device of claim 8 , wherein the organic light emitting diode is a phosphorescent organic light emitting diode.

10. The device of claim 8 , wherein the organic light emitting diode is a fluorescent organic light emitting diode.

11. A photovoltaic device comprising the compound of claim 1 .

12. A luminescent display device comprising the compound of claim 1 .

13. A light emitting device comprising the compound of claim 1 .

Assignees

• Univ Arizona State
• Arizona Board Of Regents For And On Behalf Of Arizona State Univ

Inventors

• Li Jian
• Li Guijie

Classifications

• C09K2211/1029

  containing one nitrogen atom as the heteroatom · CPC title

• Y02E10/549

  Organic PV cells · CPC title

• C09K2211/1044

  containing two nitrogen atoms as heteroatoms · CPC title

• C09K2211/1059

  containing three nitrogen atoms as heteroatoms · CPC title

• C09K2211/1037

  with sulfur · CPC title