Materials for organic electroluminescent devices

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12351594-B2
Application number	US-202017602435-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 8, 2020
Priority date	Apr 11, 2019
Publication date	Jul 8, 2025
Grant date	Jul 8, 2025

Abstract

The present invention relates to compounds of the formula (1) which are suitable for use in electronic devices, in particular organic electroluminescent devices, and to electronic devices which comprise these compounds.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A compound of the formula (1),

where the following applies to the symbols and indices used:
X 1 stands, on each occurrence, identically or differently, for CR 1 or N;
X 2 stands, on each occurrence, identically or differently, for CR 2 or N;
X A stands, on each occurrence, identically or differently, for CR A or N;
Y is a single bond;
R B stands on each occurrence, identically or differently, for CN, N(Ar) 2 , C(═O)Ar, P(═O)(Ar) 2 , S(═O)Ar, S(═O) 2 Ar, N(R) 2 , Si(R) 3, 2 , OSO 2 R, a straight-chain alkyl, alkoxy or thioalkoxy group having 1 to 40 carbon atoms or an alkenyl or alkynyl group having 2 to 40 carbon atoms or a branched or cyclic alkyl, alkoxy or thioalkoxy group having 3 to 40 carbon atoms, each of which may be substituted by one or more radicals R, where in each case one or more non-adjacent CH 2 groups may be replaced by RC═CR, C≡C, Si(R) 2 , Ge(R) 2 , Sn(R) 2 , C═O, C═S, C═Se, P(═O)(R), SO, SO 2 , O, S or CONR and where one or more H atoms may be replaced by D, F, Cl, Br, I, CN or NO 2 , or an aromatic or heteroaromatic ring system having 5 to 60 aromatic ring atoms, which may in each case be substituted by one or more radicals R, or an aryloxy group having 5 to 60 aromatic ring atoms, which may be substituted by one or more radicals R, or an aralkyl or heteroaralkyl group which has 5 to 60 aromatic ring atoms, which may be substituted by one or more R radicals;
R 1 , R 2 , R A stand on each occurrence, identically or differently, for H, D, F, Cl, Br, I, CHO, CN, N(Ar) 2 , C(═O)Ar, P(═O)(Ar) 2 , S(═O)Ar, S(═O) 2 Ar, NO 2 , Si(R) 3 , B(OR) 2 , OSO 2 R, a straight-chain alkyl, alkoxy or thioalkyl group having 1 to 40 C atoms or branched or cyclic alkyl, alkoxy or thioalkyl groups having 3 to 40 C atoms, each of which may be substituted by one or more radicals R, where in each case one or more non-adjacent CH 2 groups may be replaced by RC═CR, C≡C, Si(R) 2 , Ge(R) 2 , Sn(R) 2 , C═O, C═S, C═Se, P(═O)(R), SO, SO 2 , O, S or CONR and where one or more H atoms may be replaced by D, F, Cl, Br, I, CN or NO 2 , an aromatic or heteroaromatic ring system having 5 to 60 aromatic ring atoms, which may in each case be substituted by one or more radicals R, an aryloxy group having 5 to 60 aromatic ring atoms, which may be substituted by one or more radicals R, or an aralkyl or heteroaralkyl group which has 5 to 60 aromatic ring atoms, which may be substituted by one or more R radicals; where two adjacent radicals selected from R 1 , R 2 , R A may form a mono- or polycyclic, aliphatic ring system or aromatic ring system, which may be substituted by one or more radicals R;
R stands on each occurrence, identically or differently, for H, D, F, Cl, Br, I, CHO, CN, N(Ar) 2 , C(═O)Ar, P(═O)(Ar) 2 , S(═O)Ar, S(═O) 2 Ar, NO 2 , Si(R′) 3 , B(OR′) 2 , OSO 2 R′, a straight-chain alkyl, alkoxy or thioalkyl group having 1 to 40 C atoms or branched or cyclic alkyl, alkoxy or thioalkyl groups having 3 to 40 C atoms, each of which may be substituted by one or more radicals R′, where in each case one or more non-adjacent CH 2 groups may be replaced by R′C═CR′, C≡C, Si(R′) 2 , Ge(R′) 2 , Sn(R′) 2 , C═O, C═S, C═Se, P(═O)(R′), SO, SO 2 , O, S or CONR′ and where one or more H atoms may be replaced by D, F, Cl, Br, I, CN or NO 2 , an aromatic or heteroaromatic ring system having 5 to 60 aromatic ring atoms, which may in each case be substituted by one or more radicals R′, or an aryloxy group having 5 to 60 aromatic ring atoms, which may be substituted by one or more radicals R′, where two adjacent radicals R may form a mono- or polycyclic, aliphatic ring system or aromatic ring system, which may be substituted by one or more radicals R′;
Ar is on each occurrence, identically or differently, an aromatic or heteroaromatic ring system having 5 to 24 aromatic ring atoms, which may in each case also be substituted by one or more radicals R′;
R′ stands on each occurrence, identically or differently, for H, D, F, Cl, Br, I, CN, a straight-chain alkyl, alkoxy or thioalkyl group having 1 to 20 C atoms or branched or cyclic alkyl, alkoxy or thioalkyl group having 3 to 20 C atoms, where in each case one or more non-adjacent CH 2 groups may be replaced by SO, SO 2 , O, S and where one or more H atoms may be replaced by D, F, Cl, Br or I, or an aromatic or heteroaromatic ring system having 5 to 24 C atoms.

2. The compound according to claim 1 , wherein the compound is selected from compounds of formula (2),

where the symbols have the same meaning as in claim 1 .

3. The compound according to claim 1 , wherein the compound is selected from compounds of formula (3),

where the symbols have the same meaning as in claim 1 .

4. The compound according to claim 1 , wherein R B stands on each occurrence, identically or differently, for a straight-chain alkyl, alkoxy or thioalkoxy group having 1 to 40 carbon atoms or an alkenyl or alkynyl group having 2 to 40 carbon atoms or a branched or cyclic alkyl, alkoxy or thioalkoxy group having 3 to 40 carbon atoms, each of which may be substituted by one or more radicals R, where in each case one or more non-adjacent CH 2 groups may be replaced by RC═CR, C≡C, Si(R) 2 , Ge(R) 2 , Sn(R) 2 , C═O, C═S, C═Se, P(═O)(R), SO, SO 2 , O, S or CONR and where one or more H atoms may be replaced by D, F, Cl, Br, I, CN or NO 2 , or an aromatic or heteroaromatic ring system having 5 to 60 aromatic ring atoms, which may in each case be substituted by one or more radicals R, or an aralkyl or heteroaralkyl group which has 5 to 60 aromatic ring atoms, which may be substituted by one or more R radicals.

5. The compound according to claim 1 , wherein R B stands on each occurrence, identically or differently, for a straight-chain alkyl or alkoxy group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms or an alkenyl or alkynyl group having 2 to 20 carbon atoms or a branched or cyclic alkyl or alkoxy group having 3 to 20 carbon atoms, each of which may be substituted by one or more radicals R, where one or more H atoms may be replaced by D, F, Cl or CN, or an aromatic ring system having 5 to 60 aromatic ring atoms, which may in each case be substituted by one or more radicals R, or an aralkyl or heteroaralkyl group which has 5 to 60 aromatic ring atoms, which may be substituted by one or more R radicals.

6. The compound according to claim 1 , wherein R B is selected on each occurrence, identically or differently, from branched or cyclic alkyl groups represented by the general following formula (RS-a)

wherein
R 22 , R 23 , R 24 are at each occurrence, identically or differently, selected from H, a straight-chain alkyl group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, or a branched or cyclic alkyl group having 3 to 10 carbon atoms, where the above-mentioned groups may each be substituted by one or more radicals R 25 , and where two of radicals R 22 , R 23 , R 24 or all radicals R 22 , R 23 , R 24 may be joined to form a (poly)cyclic alkyl group, which may be substituted by one or more radicals R 25 ;
R 25 is at each occurrence, identically or differently, selected from a straight-chain alkyl group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, or a branched or cyclic alkyl group having 3 to 10 carbon atoms;
with the proviso that at each occurrence at least one of radicals R 22 , R 23 and R 24 is other tha

Assignees

• Merck Patent Gmbh

Inventors

• Stengel Ilona
• Lackner Aaron
• Rodriguez Lara-Isabel
• WALTER Charlotte
• Mekic Amel

Classifications

• H10K2101/20

  Delayed fluorescence emission · CPC title

• H10K50/121

  for assisting energy transfer, e.g. sensitization · CPC title

• H10K50/12

  comprising dopants · CPC title

• H10K85/658

  Organoboranes · CPC title

• H10K85/626

  containing more than one polycyclic condensed aromatic rings, e.g. bis-anthracene · CPC title