Concise Approach to T-Shaped NBN-Phenalene Cored Luminogens as Intensive Blue Light Emitters

Small organic molecules with finely tunable physical properties are highly desired for the fabrication of low-cost and high-performance organic electronic devices. In this work, the syntheses of a series of T-shaped NBN-embedded dibenzophenalene derivatives through the formation of a key brominated intermediate in a stoichiometrically controlled reaction are presented. The geometric and electronic structures of these T-shaped molecules can be simply tailored by attaching substituents along the direction perpendicular to the molecular main backbones, resulting in desirable physical properties, such as high thermal stability with a decomposition temperature of more than 350 °C, and intensive blue luminescence with a quantum yield up to 0.62. Organic light-emitting diode devices fabricated with such molecules as the emitting layer release pure blue light with CIE (0.16, 0.12).