Macromolecular Rapid Communications, Vol.30, No.20, 1745-1750, 2009
Synthesis of Dendritic Oligo-Spiro(fluorene-9,9'-xanthene) Derivatives with Carbazole and Fluorene Pendants and their Thermal, Optical, and Electroluminescent Properties
Two novel spiro-configured ter(arylene-ethynylene) derivatives, TSF-Cz and TSF-F, have been designed and synthesized using spiro(fluorene-9,9'-xanthene) (SFX) as building blocks, introducing a hole-transporting carbazole and a fluorene chromophore as the peripheral functional group into the backbone through an oxygen atom. The two well-defined oligomers possess good solubility, film-forming quality, and high T-g's at 140 and 126 degrees C, respectively. In addition, these oligomers exhibit blue photoluminescence (PL) emission both in solution and solid states. The double-layered devices fabricated using the two materials as the emitter show a sky-blue emission with a brightness and a current efficiency of 7 613 cd . m(-2) and 1.11cd . A(-1) for TSF-Cz, and 1507 cd . m(-2) and 0.36 cd . A(-1) for TSF-F, respectively.
Keywords:carbazole;conjugated oligomers;fluorene;light-emitting diodes;spiro(fluorene-9,9 '-xanthene)