Metal compounds, methods, and uses thereof

• US 9,882,150 B2
• Filed: 09/24/2013
• Issued: 01/30/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 09/24/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Arizona Board of Regents (University of Arizona)
• Original Assignee: Arizona Board of Regents (University of Arizona)
• Inventors: Li, Jian, Li, Guijie
• Primary Examiner(s): Kollias, Alexander
• Application Number:
  US14/430,454
• Publication Number:
  US 20150228914A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,589 Days
• CPC Class Codes: C07F 15/0086 Platinum compounds
• CPC Class Codes: C09K 11/06 containing organic luminescent materials
• CPC Class Codes: C09K 2211/1007 Non-condensed systems
• CPC Class Codes: C09K 2211/1029 containing one nitrogen atom as the heteroatom
• CPC Class Codes: C09K 2211/1033 with oxygen
• CPC Class Codes: C09K 2211/1037 with sulfur
• CPC Class Codes: C09K 2211/1044 containing two nitrogen atoms as heteroatoms
• CPC Class Codes: C09K 2211/1059 containing three nitrogen atoms as heteroatoms
• CPC Class Codes: C09K 2211/185 of the platinum group, i.e. Os, Ir, Pt, Ru, Rh or Pd
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 2101/10 Triplet emission
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 30/00 Organic devices sensitive to infrared radiation, light, electromagnetic radiation of shorter wavelength or corpuscular radiation integrated devices or assemblies of multiple devices H10K39/00, H10K65/00; electrolytic light-sensitive devices H01G9/20
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 50/11 characterised by the electroluminescent [EL] layers
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 50/125 specially adapted for multicolour light emission, e.g. for emitting white light
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 85/346 comprising platinum
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 10/549 Organic PV cells

Abstract

Disclosed herein are metal compounds useful in devices, such as, for example, OLEDs.

Claims

1. A compound having a formula selected from:

2. The compound of claim 1, wherein at least one of V¹, V², V³, and V⁴ is N.

3. The compound of claim 1, wherein the compound comprises at least one phenyl and at least one pyridine.

4. The compound of claim 1, wherein M is Pt or Pd.

5. The compound of claim 1, wherein M is Pt.

6. A photovoltaic device comprising one or more compounds of claim 1.

7. A luminescent display device comprising one or more compounds of claim 1.

8. A light emitting device comprising one or more compounds of claim 1.

9. The compound of claim 1, wherein each of U, V, X, X¹, Y, Z, and Z¹ independently is N, NH, C, CH, or

10. A device comprising one or more compounds of claim 1.

11. The device of claim 10, wherein the device is a full color display.

12. The device of claim 10, wherein the device is an organic light emitting diode.

13. The device of claim 12, wherein the organic light emitting diode is a phosphorescent OLED device.

14. The device of claim 12, wherein the organic light emitting diode is a fluorescent OLED device.

15. A compound, wherein the compound has one of the following structures:

16. A compound, wherein the compound has the structure: