Organic electroluminescent devices and metal complex compounds

• US 7,569,692 B2
• Filed: 06/01/2004
• Issued: 08/04/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 06/02/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: UDC Ireland Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Watanabe, Kousuke, Igarashi, Tatsuya, Nii, Kazumi, Ise, Toshihiro, Ichijima, Seiji
• Primary Examiner(s): Yamnitzky; Marie R.
• Application Number:
  US10/551,653
• Publication Number:
  US 20060182992A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,890 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 546/4
• CPC Class Codes: C07C 251/24 having carbon atoms of imino groups bound to carbon atoms of six-membered aromatic rings
• CPC Class Codes: C07D 213/22 containing two or more pyridine rings directly linked together, e.g. bipyridyl
• CPC Class Codes: C07D 213/53 Nitrogen atoms
• CPC Class Codes: C07F 15/0033 Iridium compounds
• CPC Class Codes: C07F 15/0086 Platinum compounds
• CPC Class Codes: C07F 15/0093 without a metal-carbon linkage
• CPC Class Codes: C09K 11/06 containing organic luminescent materials
• CPC Class Codes: C09K 2211/1029 containing one nitrogen atom as the heteroatom
• 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 2211/1092 containing sulfur as the only heteroatom
• CPC Class Codes: C09K 2211/182 of the rare earth metals, i.e. Sc, Y or lanthanide
• CPC Class Codes: C09K 2211/185 of the platinum group, i.e. Os, Ir, Pt, Ru, Rh or Pd
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 33/14 characterised by the chemical or physical composition or the arrangement of the electroluminescent material , or by the simultaneous addition of the electroluminescent material in or onto the light source
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 2101/10 Triplet emission
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 50/11 characterised by the electroluminescent [EL] layers
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 50/805 Electrodes
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 85/342 comprising iridium
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 85/346 comprising platinum
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 428/917 : Electroluminescent

Abstract

An organic electroluminescent device, which has a pair of electrodes and at least one organic layer including a luminescent layer between the pair of electrodes, wherein at least one layer between the pair of electrodes comprises at least one metal complex having a tridentate- or higher polydentate-chain structure ligand.

Claims

1. A compound represented by formula (11):