Benzoxazole-Based Hybridized Local and Charge-Transfer Deep-Blue Emitters for Solution-Processable Organic Light-Emitting Diodes and the In fluences of Hexahydrophthalimido.

Hybridized local and charge-transfer (HLCT) emitters have attracted extensive attention, but the insolubility and severe self-aggregation tendency restrict their applications in solution-processable organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), particularly deep-blue OLEDs. Herein, two novel benzoxazole-based solution-processable HLCT emitters (BPCP and BPCPCHY) are designed and synthesized, in which benzoxazole acts as an acceptor, carbazole acts as a donor, and hexahydrophthalimido (HP, with a large intramolecular torsion angle and spatial distortion characteristics) acts as a bulky modified end-group with weak electron-withdrawing effects. Both BPCP and BPCPCHY exhibit HLCT characteristics and emit near ultraviolet in toluene at 404 and 399 nm. Compared to the BPCP, the BPCPCHY solid shows much better thermal stability (Tg, 187 vs 110 °C), higher oscillator strengths of the S1-to-S0 transition (0.5346 vs 0.4809), and faster kr (1.1 × 108 vs 7.5 × 107 s-1) and thus a much higher ΦPL in the neat film. The introduction of HP groups greatly suppresses the intra-/intermolecular charge-transfer effect and self-aggregation trends, and the BPCPCHY neat films placed in air for 3 months can still maintain an excellent amorphous morphology. The solution-processable deep-blue OLEDs utilizing BPCP and BPCPCHY achieved a CIEy of 0.06 with maximum external quantum efficiency (EQEmax) values of 7.19 and 8.53%, respectively, which are among the best results of the solution-processable deep-blue OLEDs based on the "hot exciton" mechanism. All of the above results indicate that benzoxazole is an excellent acceptor for constructing deep-blue HLCT materials, and the strategy of introducing HP as a modified end-group into an HLCT emitter provides a new perspective to develop solution-processable efficient deep-blue OLEDs with high morphological stability.

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