Ionic multiresonant thermally activated delayed fluorescence emitters for light emitting electrochemical cells

We designed and synthesized two new ionic thermally activated delayed fluorescent (TADF) emitters that are charged analogues of a known multiresonant TADF (MR-TADF) compound, DiKTa. The emission of the charged derivatives is red-shifted compared to the parent compound. For instance, DiKTa-OBuIm emits in the green (lambda PL = 499 nm, 1 wt % in mCP) while DiKTa-DPA-OBuIm emits in the red (lambda PL = 577 nm, 1 wt % in mCP). In 1 wt % mCP films, both emitters showed good photoluminescence quantum yields of 71% and 61%, and delayed lifetimes of 316.6 mu s and 241.7 mu s, respectively, for DiKTa-OBuIm and DiKTa-DPA-OBuIm, leading to reverse intersystem crossing rates of 2.85 x 103 s-1 and 3.04 x 103 s-1. Light-emitting electrochemical cells were prepared using both DiKTa-OBuIm and DiKTa-DPA-OBuIm as active emitters showing green (lambda max = 534 nm) and red (lambda max = 656 nm) emission, respectively.