Complex compounds having a ligand containing an N donor and a P donor and the use thereof in the opto-electronic field

US9082990B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Merck Patent GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Lars Wesemann · Lörrach, DE
• Fritz-Robert Kuechle · Lewes, US
• Hermann August Mayer · Lörrach, DE
• Sophie Wernitz
• Hartmut Yersin · Sinzing, DE
• Markus Leitl · Winnenden, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 19, 2012
• Grant date: Jul 14, 2015
• Expiry date: Jul 19, 2032

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02E10/549
• WIPO field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

The invention describes electronic devices comprising a metal complex compound having at least one ligand containing an N donor and a P donor having the formula (I), in which the carbons C1 and C2 are part of an aromatic or non-aromatic ring system F1, P and N are phosphorus and nitrogen, where the nitrogen is in sp2-hybridized form, the radicals R3 and R4 are, independently of one another, hydrogen or an alkyl, cycloalkyl, alkenyl, cycloalkenyl, alkynyl, cycloalkynyl, alkylcycloalkyl, heteroalkyl, heterocycloalkyl, heteroalkylcycloalkyl, aryl, heteroaryl, aralkyl or heteroaralkyl radical having up to 40 C atoms, and R1 and R2 are, independently of one another, an atom or radical from the group comprising hydrogen, halogen, R, RO—, RS—, RCO—, RCOO—, RNH—, R2N—, RCONR— and —Si(R)X(OR)3-X, where R=an alkyl, cycloalkyl, alkenyl, cycloalkenyl, alkynyl, cycloalkynyl, alkylcycloalkyl, heteroalkyl, heterocycloalkyl, heteroalkylcycloalkyl, aryl, heteroaryl, aralkyl or heteroaralkyl radical having up to 40 C atoms and X=1, 2 or 3. The invention furthermore describes a process for the production of an electronic device of this type and processes for the generation of light or blue emission u…