Polymers with amine-group-containing repeating units
AssigneeMerck Patent GmbH
InventorsNils Koenen, Dominik Joosten, Beate Burkhart, Katja Scheible, Miriam Engel, Holger Heil
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Abstract
The invention relates to polymers having at least one repeating unit of the following formula (I): wherein Ar1, Ar2, Ar3 and Ar4, R and X, and a, b, c, d, e and f can have the meanings defined in claim 1, to processes for the preparation thereof and to the use thereof in electronic or optoelectronic devices, in particular in organic electroluminescent devices, so-called OLEDs (OLED═Organic Light Emitting Diodes). The present invention also relates to electronic or optoelectronic devices, in particular organic electroluminescent devices, which contain said polymers.
Claims17
A polymer having at least one repeat unit of the following formula (I):
- wherein
- X is selected from O, S, NR or CR2;
- Ar1, Ar2, Ar3 and Ar4 are the same or different at each instance and are independently a mono- or polycyclic, aromatic or heteroaromatic ring system which has 5 to 60 aromatic ring atoms and optionally substituted by one R radical;
- a and b are the same at each instance and are 1;
- where (a+b)=2;
- c and d are the same at each instance and are 1;
- e and f are the same at each instance and are independently 0, 1, 2 or 3;
- R is the same at each instance and is independently H, D, F, Cl, Br, I, N(R1)2, CN, NO2, Si(R1)3, B(OR1)2, C(═O)R1, P(═O)(R1)2, S(═O)R1, S(═O)2R1, OSO2R1, a straight-chain alkyl, alkoxy or thioalkoxy group having 1 to 40 carbon atoms, 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 optionally substituted by one or more R1 radicals, where one or more nonadjacent CH2 groups optionally replaced by R1C═CR1, C≡C, Si(R1)2, C═O, C═S, C═NR1, P(═O)R1, SO, SO2, NR1, O, S or CONR1 and where one or more hydrogen atoms optionally replaced by D, F, Cl, Br, I or CN, or a mono- or polycyclic, aromatic or heteroaromatic ring system which has 5 to 60 aromatic ring atoms and optionally substituted in each case by one or more R1 radicals, or an aryloxy or heteroaryloxy group which has 5 to 60 aromatic ring atoms and optionally substituted by one or more R1 radicals, or an aralkyl or heteroaralkyl group which has 5 to 60 aromatic ring atoms and optionally substituted by one or more R1 radicals, or a diarylamino group, diheteroarylamino group or arylheteroarylamino group which has 10 to 40 aromatic ring atoms and optionally substituted by one or more R1 radicals;
- or a crosslinkable group Q, where two or more R radicals together optionally form a mono- or polycyclic, aliphatic, aromatic or heteroaromatic ring system;
- is the same at each instance and is independently H, D, F or an aliphatic hydrocarbyl radical having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, an aromatic or a heteroaromatic hydrocarbyl radical having 5 to 20 carbon atoms, in which one or more hydrogen atoms optionally be replaced by F;
- where two or more R1 substituents together optionally form a mono- or polycyclic, aliphatic, aromatic or heteroaromatic ring system;
- and the dotted lines represent bonds to adjacent repeat units in the polymer,
- and wherein the polymer contains from 5 to 75 mol %, based on 100 mol % of all copolymerizable monomers present as repeat units in the polymer, of the at least one repeat unit of the formula (I).
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.