Shan, Guo-Gang published the artcileEnhancing the luminescence properties and stability of cationic iridium(III) complexes based on phenylbenzoimidazole ligand: a combined experimental and theoretical study, Related Products of imidazoles-derivatives, the publication is Dalton Transactions (2013), 42(31), 11056-11065, database is CAplus and MEDLINE.
Herein we designed and synthesized a series of cationic iridium(III) complexes with a phenylbenzimidazole-based cyclometalated ligands, containing different numbers of carbazole moieties from zero to three. Complexes [Ir(Phbi)2(PyPhbi)][PF6] (1, H-Phbi = 1,2-diphenylbenzimidazole, PyPhbi = 3-phenyl-2-(2-pyridyl)benzimidazole) [Ir(Phbi)2(PyCbzbi)][PF6] [2, PyCbzbi = 1-(4-(9-carbazolyl)phenyl)-2-(2-pyridyl)benzimidazole], [Ir(Cbzbi)2(PyPhbi)][PF6] [3, H-Cbzbi = 1-(4-(9-carbazolyl)phenyl)-2-phenylbenzimidazole] and [Ir(Cbzbi)2(PyCbzbi)][PF6] (4) were prepared by reacting the corresponding chloro-bridged dimers [Ir2(Phbi)4(μ-Cl)2] and [Ir2(Cbzbi)4(μ-Cl)2] with pyridylbenzimidazoles PyPhbi and PyCbzbi. The photophys. and electrochem. properties of this series have been systematically investigated. The complexes exhibit strong luminescence in both solution and in neat films, as well as excellent redox reversibility. Introducing carbazole groups into the complexes is found to lead to substantially enhanced photoluminescence quantum efficiency in the neat film, but has little effect on the emitting color and excited-state characteristics as supported by d. functional theory (DFT) results. DFT calculations also suggest that functionalized complexes 2–4 reveal better hole-transporting properties than 1. More importantly, all complexes effectively reduce the degradation reaction to some extent in metal-centered (3MC) excited-states, demonstrating their stability. Further studies indicate that restriction of opening of the structures in the 3MC state is caused by the unique mol. conformation of the phenylbenzimidazole ligand, which is first demonstrated here in cationic iridium(iii) complexes without intramol. π-π stacking. These results presented here would provide valuable information for designing and synthesizing highly efficient and stable cationic iridium(III) complexes suitable for the optical devices.
Dalton Transactions published new progress about 2622-67-5. 2622-67-5 belongs to imidazoles-derivatives, auxiliary class Benzimidazole,Benzene,Benzimidazole, name is 1,2-Diphenyl-1H-benzo[d]imidazole, and the molecular formula is C4H6BrFO2, Related Products of imidazoles-derivatives.
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