Polymers with asymmetric repeating units
AssigneeMerck Patent GmbH
InventorsBeate Burkhart, Katja Maria Scheible, Nils Koenen, Holger Heil
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Abstract
The invention relates to polymers having at least one asymmetrical structural unit of the following formula (I): wherein A, B, Ar1, Ar2, Ar3 and Ar4, n, m, o and p can have the meaning as defined in claim 1, to methods for the production 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 organic electroluminescent devices which contain said polymers.
Claims18
1-18. (canceled)
A polymer comprising at least one structural unit of formula (I):
- wherein
- A is a polycyclic aromatic or heteroaromatic ring system having 10 to 60 aromatic or heteroaromatic ring atoms and which is optionally substituted by one or more R radicals;
- B is a mono- or polycyclic, aromatic or heteroaromatic ring system having 5 to 10 aromatic or heteroaromatic ring atoms and which is optionally substituted by one or more R radicals;
- wherein the number of aromatic or heteroaromatic ring atoms in A is greater than the number of aromatic or heteroaromatic ring atoms in B;
- Ar1, Ar2, Ar3, and Ar4
- are the same or different in each instance and are a mono- or polycyclic, aromatic or heteroaromatic ring system having 5 to 60 aromatic ring atoms and which is optionally substituted by one or more R radicals;
- n, m, o, and p
- are the same or different and are each 0 or 1;
- R is the same or different in each instance and is 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 or a branched or cyclic alkyl, alkoxy, or thioalkoxy group having 3 to 40 carbon atoms, each of which is optionally substituted by one or more R1 radicals, wherein one or more nonadjacent CH2 groups are 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 wherein one or more hydrogen atoms are optionally replaced by D, F, Cl, Br, I, or CN, or a mono- or polycyclic, aromatic or heteroaromatic ring system having 5 to 60 aromatic ring atoms and which is optionally substituted in each case by one or more R1 radicals, or an aryloxy or heteroaryloxy group having 5 to 60 aromatic ring atoms and which is optionally substituted by one or more R1 radicals, or an aralkyl or heteroaralkyl group having 5 to 60 aromatic ring atoms and which is optionally substituted by one or more R1 radicals, or a diarylamino group, diheteroarylamino group, or arylheteroarylamino group having 10 to 40 aromatic ring atoms and which is optionally substituted by one or more R1 radicals, or a crosslinkable Q group;
- and wherein two or more R radicals together optionally define a mono- or polycyclic, aliphatic, aromatic, and/or benzofused ring system;
- R1 is the same or different in each instance and is H, D, F, or an aliphatic hydrocarbyl radical having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, an aromatic and/or a heteroaromatic hydrocarbyl radical having 5 to 20 carbon atoms, wherein one or more hydrogen atoms are optionally replaced by F;
- and wherein two or more R1 substituents together optionally define a mono- or polycyclic, aliphatic, aromatic, or heteroaromatic ring system;
- and
- the dotted lines denote bonds to adjacent structural units in the polymer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.