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US 9,040,512 B2Granted
Phosphorus-containing metal complexes
AssigneeMerck Patent GmbH
InventorsRémi Manouk Anémian, Burkhard Koenig, Claire de Nonancourt
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Abstract
The present invention relates, inter alia, to metal complexes having improved solubility, to processes for the preparaion of the metal complexes, to devices comprising these metal complexes and to the use of the metal complexes.
Claims7
A compound of the formula (1)
- M(L)n(L′)m formula (1)
- where the compound contains a moiety M(L)n is selected from the formulae (36) to (59)
- wherein
- X is CR1;
- R1 is, identically or differently on each occurrence, H, D, F, Cl, Br, I, N(R2)2, CN, NO2, Si(R2)3, B(OR2)2, C(═O)R2, P(═O)(R2)2, S(═O)R2, S(═O)2R2, OSO2R2, a straight-chain alkyl, alkoxy or thioalkoxy group having 1 to 40 C atoms or a straight-chain alkenyl or alkynyl group having 2 to 40 C atoms or a branched or cyclic alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, alkoxy, alkylakoxy or thioalkoxy group having 3 to 40 C atoms, each of which is optionally substituted by one or more radicals R2, where one or more non-adjacent CH2 groups is optionally replaced by R2C═CR2, C≡C, Si(R2)2, Ge(R2)2, Sn(R2)2, C═O, C═S, C═Se, C═NR2, P(═O)(R2), SO2, NR2, O, S or CONR2 and where one or more H atoms is optionally replaced by D, F, Cl, Br, I, CN or NO2, or an aromatic or heteroaromatic ring system having 5 to 60 aromatic ring atoms, which optionally in each case is substituted by one or more radicals R2, or an aryloxy, arylalkoxy, alkylaryloxy or heteroaryloxy group having 5 to 60 aromatic ring atoms, which is optionally substituted by one or more radicals R2, or a diarylamino group, diheteroarylamino group or aryiheteroarylamino group having 10 to 40 aromatic ring atoms, which is optionally substituted by one or more radicals R2, or a combination of two or more of these groups;
- two or more radicals R1 here may also form a mono- or polycyclic, aliphatic, aromatic and/or benzo-fused ring system with one another;
- M is iridium or platinum;
- L′ is, identically or differently on each occurrence, a co-ligand;
- W is, identically or differently on each occurrence, a radical of the formulae (3) and (4)
- where V is equal to S or O;
- R4 is, identically or differently on each occurrence, H, D, F, Cl, Br, I, N(R2)2, a straight-chain alkyl, alkoxy or thioalkoxy group having 1 to 40 C atoms or a straight-chain alkenyl or alkynyl group having 2 to 40 C atoms or a branched or cyclic alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, alkoxy, alkylalkoxy or thioalkoxy group having 3 to 40 C atoms, each of which is optionally substituted by one or more radicals R2, where one or more non-adjacent CH2 groups is optionally replaced by R2C═CR2, C≡C, Si(R2)2, Ge(R2)2, Sn(R2)2, C═O, C═S, C═Se, C═NR2, P(═O)(R2), SO, SO2, NR2, O, S or CONR2 and where one or more H atoms is optionally replaced by D, F, Cl, Br, I, CN or NO2, or an aromatic or heteroaromatic ring system having 5 to 60 aromatic ring atoms, which optionally in each case is substituted by one or more radicals R2, or an aryloxy, arylalkoxy, alkylaryloxy or heteroaryloxy group having 5 to 60 aromatic ring atoms, which is optionally substituted by one or more radicals R2, or a diarylamino group, diheteroarylamino group or arylheteroarylamino group having 10 to 40 aromatic ring atoms, which is optionally substituted by one or more radicals R2, or a combination of two or more of these groups;
- two or more radicals R4 here may also form a mono- or polycyclic, aliphatic, aromatic and/or benzo-fused ring system with one another;
- R2 is, identically or differently on each occurrence, H, D, F, Cl, Br, I, N(R3)2, CN, NO2, Si(R3)3, B(OR3)2, C(═O)R3, P(═O)(R3)2, S(═O)R3, S(═O)2R3, OSO2R3, a straight-chain alkyl, alkoxy or thioalkoxy group having 1 to 40 C atoms or a straight-chain alkenyl or alkynyl group having 2 to 40 C atoms or a branched or cyclic alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, alkoxy, alkylalkoxy or thioalkoxy group having 3 to 40 C atoms, each of which is optionally substituted by one or more radicals R3, where one or more non-adjacent CH2 groups is optionally replaced by R3C═CR3, C≡C, Si(R3)2, Ge(R3)2, Sn(R3)2, C═O, C═S, C═Se, C═NR3, P(═O)(R3), SO, SO2, NR3, O, S or CONR3 and where one or more H atoms is optionally replaced by D, F, Cl, Br, I, CN or NO2, or an aromatic or heteroaromatic ring system having 5 to 60 aromatic ring atoms, which optionally in each case is substituted by one or more radicals R3, or an aryloxy, arylalkoxy, alkylaryloxy or heteroaryloxy group having 5 to 60 aromatic ring atoms, which is optionally substituted by one or more radicals R3, or a diarylamino group, diheteroarylamino group or arylheteroarylamino group having 10 to 40 aromatic ring atoms, which is optionally substituted by one or more radicals R3, or a combination of two or more of these groups;
- two or more adjacent radicals R2 here may form a mono- or polycyclic, aliphatic or aromatic ring system with one another;
- R3 is, identically or differently on each occurrence, H, D, F or an aliphatic, aromatic and/or heteroaromatic hydrocarbon radical having 1 to 20 C atoms, in which, in addition, one or more H atoms is optionally replaced by F;
- two or more substituents R3 here optionally also forms a mono- or polycyclic, aliphatic or aromatic ring system with one another;
- n is 1, 2 or 3 for M equal to iridium and is 1 or 2 for M equal to platinum;
- m is 0, 1, 2 for M equal to iridium and is 0 or 1 for M equal to platinum;
- the indices n and m here are selected so that the coordination number on the metal corresponds to 6 for M equal to iridium or rhodium and corresponds to 4 for M equal to platinum or palladium.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.