In Situ Solid-State Generation of (BN)2 -Pyrenes and Electroluminescent Devices

New BN-heterocyclic compounds have been found to undergo double arene photoelimination, forming rare yellow fluorescent BN-pyrenes that contain two BN units. Most significant is the discovery that the double arene elimination can also be driven by excitons generated electrically within electroluminescent (EL) devices, enabling the in situ solid-state conversion of BN-heterocycles to BN-pyrenes and the use of BN-pyrenes as emitters for EL devices. The in situ exciton-driven elimination (EDE) phenomenon has also been observed for other BN-heterocycles.