Metal complexes

US9382253B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Merck Patent GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Philipp Stoessel · Frankfurt am Main, DE
• Dominik Joosten · Ober-Ramstadt, DE
• Anja Gerhard · Egelsbach, DE
• Esther Breuning · Ober-Ramstadt, DE
• Niels Schulte · Kelkheim, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 17, 2011
• Grant date: Jul 5, 2016
• Expiry date: Dec 6, 2032

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02E10/549
• WIPO field: Organic fine chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

The present invention relates to metal complexes which contain polymerizable groups and to the polymers obtained using these metal complexes and to electronic devices, in particular organic electroluminescent devices, comprising these polymers. The metal complexes are compounds of the formula (1), containing a moiety M(L)n of the formula (2) or formula (3).