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Annie J Middleton1, William J Marshall, Nora S Radu
1DuPont Displays, Experimental Station, E. I. DuPont de Nemours and Co., Inc., Wilmington, DE 19880-0328, USA.
Journal of the American Chemical Society
|January 23, 2003
Abstract:
We determined that the structure of the previously published highly efficient blue electroluminescent borate complex, lithium tetra(2-methyl-8-hydroxyquinolato) boron, does not contain boron. Rather, it is the lithium salt of 2-methyl-8-hydroxyquinoline.
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