Disilanyl Double-Pillared Bisanthracene: A Bipolar Carrier Transport Material for Organic Light-Emitting Diode Devices
Disilanyl Double-Pillared Bisanthracene: A Bipolar Carrier Transport Material for Organic Light-Emitting Diode Devices
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DOI:
10.1002/anie.201002432
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发表时间:
2010-01-01
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16.6
通讯作者:
Isobe, Hiroyuki
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作者:
Nakanishi, Waka;Hitosugi, Shunpei;Isobe, Hiroyuki
The first direct-current electroluminescent material, anthracene, has been the cornerstone molecule for organic electronics.[1] The first reports on the electroluminescence with single crystals of anthracene demonstrated the potential use of organic molecules as emission materials as well as hole-and electron-transport materials.[2] Vacuum deposition of anthracene also paved the way for thin-film devices functioning at a low driving voltage (ca. 30V) albeit at a low quantum efficiency (ca. 0.05%) and low substrate temperature (ca. À508C).[3] However, the molecule was quickly replaced with aryl amine derivatives for the hole-transport layer (HTL), such as N, N’-diphenyl-N, N’-bis (1-naphthyl)-1, 1’-biphenyl-4, 4’-diamine (α-NPD) and with tris (8-hydroxyquinoline) aluminum (Alq3) for the electron-transport layer (ETL) after the discovery of layered organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) with superior performance and stability.[4, 5] Although several derivatives for the emission layer (EML) were accumulated by varying functional groups at the 9-and 10-positions,[6] the further application of anthracene derivatives as carrier transport materials in layered OLEDs has been rarely explored,[7] despite the renewed interest in these materials for thin-film organic field-effect transistors (OFETs).[8] We report herein on the design and synthesis of an anthracene derivative, disilanyl double-pillared bisanthracene(SiDPBA, 1, Scheme 1), which effectively functions as a bipolar carrier transport material in OLEDs. The device performance using SiDPBA as both an HTL and ETL material is reasonably high and highlights a new strategy for the molecular design of organic electronic materials.The anthracene derivative SiDPBA was designed without importing structural motifs established for HTL and ETL materials [7] and was synthesized in a one-pot procedure from 1, 8-diiodoanthracene (2; Scheme 1). Thus, 2 was lithiated in the lithium–halogen exchange reaction using tert-butyllithium and was subsequently silylated using 1, 2-dichlorotetramethyldisilane to give SiDPBA. Oligomeric byproducts were easily removed by washing with diethyl ether, and the desired compound was obtained in 50% yield as an analytically pure material without recourse to column chromatography. The product was a single isomer, and the anti geometry of the anthracene units was revealed by X-ray crystallographic analysis (see below). We did not detect the other possible isomer with syn geometry. The synthesis method is feasible for gram-scale preparation.[9] The step-like structure of SiDPBA was established unequivocally by X-ray diffraction analysis of a single crystal.[10] As shown in Figure 1a, the antiperiplanar alignment of the Cipso-Si-Si-Cipso moiety positions two adjacent anthracene planes in an antiparallel manner (see also Tables S2 and S3 in the Supporting Information). The torsion angles between the SiÀSi single bond and the anthracene plane are in the range 61–738, which results in a favorable σSiSi–π conjugation (see below).[11] The molecules are packed with face-to-edge intermolecular contacts similar to unsubstituted anthracene. The arrangement yields a two-dimensional network of intermolecular contacts in the crystal, although the unique step-like shape of the molecule distorts the packing and hinders the formation of typical herringbone motifs (Figure 1b).