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US 7,910,687 B2Granted
Conjugated polymers containing arylamine units, the representation thereof and the use of the same
AssigneeMerck Patent GmbH
InventorsArne Büsing, Esther Breuning, Hubert Spreitzer, Heinrich Becker, Corinna Leske
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Abstract
The present invention relates to conjugated polymers which contain specific fused arylamine structural units. The inventive materials have improved efficiency at a high illumination density and are therefore suitable in particular for use in what are known as passive matrix displays.
Claims18
A conjugated polymer containing at least 1 mol % of units of the formula (I)
- where the symbols and indices are each defined as follows:
- Ar1 and Ar3 are the same or different at each instance and are each an aromatic or heteroaromatic ring system which has from 2 to 40 carbon atoms and are optionally substituted or else unsubstituted;
- the possible substituents R1 are optionally at any free position;
- Ar2 and Ar4 are the same or different at each instance and are each Ar1, Ar3 or a substituted or unsubstituted stilbenzylene or tolanylene unit;
- Ar-fus is the same or different at each instance and is an aromatic or heteroaromatic ring system which has at least 9 but at most 40 atoms carbon or heteroatoms in the conjugated system which is optionally substituted or else unsubstituted and which consists of at least two fused rings;
- the possible substituents R1 is optionally at any free position;
- Ar5 is the same or different at each instance and is either an aromatic or heteroaromatic ring system which has from 2 to 40 carbon atoms and are optionally substituted or else unsubstituted, or Ar-fus;
- the possible substituents are optionally at any free position;
- m and n are the same or different at each instance and are each 0, 1 or 2;
- R1 is the same or different at each instance and is a straight-chain, branched or cyclic alkyl or alkoxy chain having from 1 to 22 carbon atoms in which one or more nonadjacent carbon atoms are optionally replaced by N—R2, O, S, —CO—O—, O—CO—O and one or more hydrogen atoms are optionally replaced by fluorine, an aryl or aryloxy group having from 5 to 40 carbon atoms in which one or more carbon atoms are optionally replaced by O, S or N and which may also be substituted by one or more nonaromatic R1 radicals, or Cl, F, CN, N(R2)2, B(R2)2, and two or more R1 radicals together optionally form a ring system;
- R2 is the same or different at each instance and is H, a straight-chain, branched or cyclic alkyl chain having from 1 to 22 carbon atoms in which one or more nonadjacent carbon atoms are optionally replaced by O, S, —CO—O—, O—CO—O and one or more hydrogen atoms is optionally replaced by fluorine, an aryl group having from 5 to 40 carbon atoms in which one or more carbon atoms are optionally replaced by O, S or N and which are optionally substituted by one or more nonaromatic R1 radicals,
- with the proviso that the units according to the structures (1) to (3)
- are excluded when the conjugated polymer contains metal complexes which enable a transfer of singlet excitons to triplet excitons and with the proviso that the polymer does not contain fluorene units and
- wherein the polymer contains further structural elements and said further structural elements are meta-phenylenes, 1,4-naphthylenes, 9,10-anthracenylenes, 2,7-phenanthrenylenes, 1,6-pyrenylenes, 2,7-pyrenylenes, 4,9-pyrenylenes, 2,7-tetrahydropyrenylenes, oxadiazolylenes, 2,5-thiophenylenes, 2,5-pyrrolylenes, 2,5-furanylenes, 2,5-pyridylenes, 2,5-pyrimidinylenes, 3,6- or 2,7-carbazolylenes, 5,8-quinolinylenes, spiro-9,9′-bifluorenylenes, indenofluorenylenes, stilbenzylenes, tolanylenes, bisstyrylarylenes, bis(arylacetylene)arylenes, chrysenes, naphthacenes, pentacenes, perylenes, coronenes, metal complexes which enable a transfer of singlet excitons to triplet excitons and which emit light from the triplet state, arylene-acetylene structures or larger aromatic units.
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