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US 9,815,940 B2Granted
Polymers containing substituted triarylamine units and electroluminescent devices containing said polymers
AssigneeMerck Patent GmbH
InventorsFabrice Eckes, Katja Stegmaier, Anna Hayer, Holger Heil, Dominik Joosten
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Abstract
The present invention relates to polymers which contain triarylamine repeating units that are substituted in the ortho position, methods for the production thereof, and the use thereof in electronic devices, especially in organic electroluminescent devices, so-called OLEDs (OLED=Organic Light Emitting Diode). The present invention also relates to organic electroluminescent devices which contain said polymers.
Claims15
A polymer comprising at least one structural unit of the following formula (I):
- wherein the at least one structural unit of the formula (I) is selected from the structural unit of formula (Ia):
- where
- Ar1 to Ar3 is on each occurrence, in each case identically or differently, a mono- or polycyclic, aromatic or heteroaromatic ring system having 5 to 60 aromatic ring atoms, which may be substituted by one or more radicals R;
- R is on each occurrence, identically or differently, 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 C atoms or a branched or cyclic alkyl, alkoxy or thioalkoxy group having 3 to 40 C atoms, each of which may be substituted by one or more radicals R1, where one or more non-adjacent CH2 groups may be 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 H atoms may be 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, which may in each case be substituted by one or more radicals R1, or an aryloxy or heteroaryloxy group having 5 to 60 aromatic ring atoms, which may be substituted by one or more radicals R1, or an aralkyl or heteroaralkyl group having 5 to 60 aromatic ring atoms, which may be substituted by one or more radicals R1, or a diarylamino group, diheteroarylamino group or arylheteroarylamino group having 10 to 40 aromatic ring atoms, which may be substituted by one or more radicals R1, or a crosslinkable group Q, where two or more radicals R may also form a mono- or polycyclic, aliphatic, aromatic and/or benzo-fused ring system with one another;
- R1 is on each occurrence, identically or differently, H, D, F or an aliphatic hydrocarbon radical having 1 to 20 C atoms, an aromatic and/or a heteroaromatic hydrocarbon radical having 5 to 20 C atoms, in which, in addition, one or more H atoms may be replaced by F;
- where two or more substituents R1 may also form a mono- or polycyclic, aliphatic or aromatic ring system with one another;
- and
- the dashed lines represent bonds to adjacent structural units in the polymer,
- characterised in that Ar3 is substituted by Ar4 in at least one, preferably in one of the two ortho-positions, where Ar4 is a mono- or polycyclic, aromatic or heteroaromatic ring system having 5 to 60 aromatic ring atoms, which may be substituted by one or more radicals R,
- q=0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6,
- X═CR2, NR, SiR2, O, S, C═O or P═O, and
- r=0 or 1.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.