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US009472762B2 (12) United States Patent (10) Patent No.: US 9.472,762 B2 Murer et al. (45) Date of Patent: Oct. 18, 2016 (54) IRIDIUM ORGANOMETALLIC COMPLEX (56) References Cited CONTAINING ASUBSTITUTED DIBENZOFHQUINOXALINE AND AN U.S. PATENT DOCUMENTS ELECTRONIC DEVICE HAVING AN 7,166.368 B2 1/2007 Lecloux et al. EMITTING LAYER CONTAINING THE 8,471,248 B2 6, 2013 Schmidhalter et al. IRIDIUM COMPLEX 2003. O138662 A1 7/2003 Li et al. 2004/0001970 A1 1/2004 Qiu et al. (71) Applicant: BASF SE, Ludwigshafen (DE) 2008.0160345 A1 7/2008 Inoue et al. 2009,0283757 A1 11/2009 Seo et al. (72) Inventors: Peter Murer, Oberwil (CH); Stephan 2009/03222 17 A1 12/2009 Inoue et al. Allenbach, Sisseln (CH); Gerhard 2010, 0001638 A1 1/2010 Kawakami et al. Wagenblast, Wachenheim (DE); 2010 OO60154 A1 3/2010 Nomura et al. Christian Schildknecht, Fremont, CA 2010 OO6O155 A1 3/2010 Seo et al. 2010/0076201 A1 3/2010 Suzuki et al. (US); Christian Lennartz, Schifferstadt 2010, 0096.981 A1 4/2010 Seo et al. (DE) 2010.0156957 A1 6/2010 Ogita et al. 2011 OO894.07 A1 4/2011 Schmidhalter et al. (73) Assignee: UDC Ireland Limited, Dublin (IE) 2011 0186825 A1 8/2011 Egawa et al. 2011 01985.74 A1 8/2011 Egawa et al. (*) Notice: Subject to any disclaimer, the term of this 2011/021031.6 A1 9/2011 Kadoma et al. patent is extended or adjusted under 35 2011/0215714 A1 9, 2011 Seo et al. U.S.C. 154(b) by 0 days. 2011/0284835 A1 11/2011 Osaka et al. (21) Appl. No.: 14/371,064 FOREIGN PATENT DOCUMENTS (22) PCT Fed: Jan. 9, 2013 EP 1939 208 A1 T 2008 EP 2 363 398 A1 9, 2011 (86) PCT No.: PCT/EP2013/050267 (Continued) S 371 (c)(1), (2) Date: Jul. 8, 2014 OTHER PUBLICATIONS (87) PCT Pub. No.: WO2O13A104649 International Search Report issued Mar. 7, 2013 in PCT/EP2013/ PCT Pub. Date: Jul. 18, 2013 OSO267. (Continued) (65) Prior Publication Data US 2015/OOO5497 A1 Jan. 1, 2015 Primary Examiner — Douglas M. Willis Related U.S. Application Data (74) Attorney, Agent, or Firm — Riverside Law LLP (60) Provisional application No. 61/585,676, filed on Jan. 12, 2012. (57) ABSTRACT (30) Foreign Application Priority Data Iridium organometallic complexes containing a Substituted dibenzof,hquinoxaline of formula (I) are provided. These Jan. 12, 2012 (EP) ..................................... 1215.0969 compounds are useful as orange or red emitting components of a light emitting layer in an electronic device. (51) Int. C. CO7D 24I/36 (2006.01) COIG 55/00 (2006.01) (I) HOIL 5L/00 (2006.01) C07F 15/00 (2006.01) HOIL 5L/05 (2006.01) HOIL 5/42 (2006.01) HOIL 5L/50 (2006.01) (52) U.S. C. CPC ........... HOIL 51/0035 (2013.01); C07F 15/00 M-L) (2013.01); C07F 15/0033 (2013.01); HOIL 51/0036 (2013.01); HOIL 51/0083 (2013.01); HOIL 51/05 (2013.01); HOIL 51/42 (2013.01); HOIL 51/5012 (2013.01) (58) Field of Classification Search CPC ............................. C01G 55700; C07D 241/36 USPC ............................................. 423/22:544/343 See application file for complete search history. 13 Claims, 1 Drawing Sheet US 9,472,762 B2 Page 2 (56) References Cited WO WO 2008.034758 A3 3.2008 WO WO 2008/065975 A1 6, 2008 WO WO 2009/003898 A1 1, 2009 FOREIGN PATENT DOCUMENTS WO WO 2009/OO3919 A1 1, 2009 WO WO 2009/069535 A1 6, 2009 JP 2005-298483. A 10/2005 WO WO 2009/100991 A1 8, 2009 JP 2006-241.124 A 9, 2006 WO WO 2009,157498 A1 12/2009 KR 10-2006-0036670 A 5, 2006 WO WO 2010/002850 A1 1, 2010 KR 10-2006-0079625 A T 2006 WO WO 2010/047707 A1 4/2010 WO WO O3,058667 A1 T 2003 WO WO 2010, 145991 A1 12/2010 WO WO 2005/O19373 A2 3, 2005 WO WO 2012/04571.0 A1 4/2012 WO WO 2005/049762 A1 6, 2005 WO WO 2005/113704 A3 12/2005 WO WO 2006.000544 A2 1/2006 OTHER PUBLICATIONS W. 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U.S. Patent Oct. 18, 2016 US 9.472,762 B2 Fig. 1 i 550 600 650 700 750 800 Wavelength (nm) Fig. 2 i 550 600 650 700 750 800 Wavelength (nm) US 9,472,762 B2 1. 2 IRIDIUM ORGANOMETALLC COMPLEX -continued CONTAINING ASUBSTITUTED DIBENZOFHQUINOXALINE AND AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE HAVING AN EMITTING LAYER CONTAINING THE 5 IRIDIUM COMPLEX CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS 10 This application is the National Stage of PCT/EP13/ 050267, filed Jan. 9, 2013, the disclosure of which is which can be used for the luminous element and is also incorporated herein by reference in its entirety. The parent Suitable for an organic electroluminescent element material, Application claims priority to U.S. Provisional Application 15 an electrochemiluminescent (ECL) element material, a lumi No. 61/585676 and to European Application No. nescence sensor, a photosensitizer, a display, etc., its prepa 1215.0969.9, both filed Jan. 12, 2012, the disclosures of ration method and a luminous material. which are incorporated herein by reference in their entire KR20060079625 relates to phosphorescent red-emitting ties. iridium complexes, such as, for example, BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention This invention relates to electroluminescent metal com 25 plexes with dibenzofhquinoxalines, a process for their preparation, electronic devices comprising the metal com plexes and their use in electronic devices, especially organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs). The metal complexes with dibenzofhquinoxalines show high emission efficiency, 30 excellent vaporizability, thermal stability, processing stabil ity, high charge carrier mobilities, low turn-on Voltage and and organic electroluminescent device comprising same. high temperature stability of the emission color. Z. Liu et al, Adv. Funct. Mat. 2006, 16, 1441, describe the 2. Description of Related Art use of the complexes 35 JP2005298483 describes an iridium complex, such as, for example, 40 45 wherein R' is t-butyl and R is 50 O. SC) N 55 - or R' is t-butyl and R is 60 QC) 65 for highly efficient non-doped organic light emitting diodes. US 9,472,762 B2 3 4 J.-P. Duanet al., Adv. Mat. 2003, 15, 224, describe the use KR20060079625 relates to iridium complexes repre of the complexes sented by the formula (1) 1. N-N 10 Ir(acac) and 15 wherein R. R. R. R. R., and Rs are independently H, a halogen atom, a carboxy group, an amino group, a cyano group, a nitro group, a C-C alkyl group, a C-Clsaryl S group, a C-Calkoxy group or a Ca-Chetero ring contain Ir(acac) ing a hetero atom such as S or N, or R and R can be fused 25 to form an aromatic ring; R and Rs are independently H, a C-C alkyl group, a C-Chaloalkyl group, a C-Clsaryl group, a C-Chetero ring, an amino group Substituted with an alkyl or aryl group, a C-Calkoxy group, a cyano group or a nitro group; and X is CH or N (claim 1), and an OLED as orange-red emitters in an OLED. 30 device containing the metal complex of formula (1). EP1939208A1 is directed to an organometallic complex KR20060036670 relates to phosphorescent iridium com having a structure represented by the general formula plexes and organic electroluminescent devices comprising the same. The following phosphorescent iridium complexes are explicitly disclosed 35 (G1) 40 Mo-Lo. 45 50 wherein Ar represents an aryl group having 6 to 25 carbon atoms; A represents any one of hydrogen, an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, and an alkoxy group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms; 55 A to Aeach represent any one of hydrogen, an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, an alkoxy group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, and a halogen group; Mo represents a metal of Group 9 elements and Group 10 elements; 60 Lo represents a monoanionic ligand; and u is 2 when the metal is a Group 9 element, and u is 1 when the metal is a Group 10 element. WO2009069535 relates to a light-emitting element com prising a light-emitting layer between a first electrode and a 65 second electrode, wherein the light-emitting layer comprises a first organic compound having a hole-transporting prop erty, a second organic compound having an electron-trans US 9,472,762 B2 5 6 porting property, and an organometallic complex, wherein a -continued ligand of the organometallic complex has a dibenzofh (II) quinoxaline skeleton, especially a 2-aryldibenzofhqui noxaline derivative, and wherein a central metal of the organometallic complex is a Group 9 or Group 10 element. WO2009157498 relates to metal complexes of the for mula M-L) 10 R11 15 and their use in OLEDS. Among others compounds of formula 25 30 wherein R' to R' represent any of hydrogen, an alkyl group 35 having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, or an alkoxy group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms; M represents a central metal selected from a Group 9 or Group 10 elements; 40 are preferred.