Accelerating Radiative Decay in Blue Through‐Space Charge Transfer Emitters by Minimizing the Face‐to‐Face Donor–Acceptor Distances

作者：Huang Tianyu; Wang Qi; Meng Guoyun; Duan Lian; Zhang Dongdong

来源：Angewandte Chemie, 2022, 134(12).

DOI：10.1002/ANGE.202200059

• Blue Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence
• Donor–Acceptor Distance
• Organic Light-Emitting Diodes
• TADF-Sensitized Fluorescence
• Through-Space Charge Transfer

Thermally activated delayed fluorophors (TADF) featuring through‐space charge transfers (TSCT) suffer from low radiative decay rates (krs), especially for blue emitters. Here, a xanthene bridge is adopted to construct space‐confined face‐to‐face donor–acceptor alignment and minimize their distances down to 2.7–2.8??, even shorter than the interlayer distance of graphite and thus strengthening the electronic interactions. The resulting blue TSCT‐TADF emitters exhibit peaks around ≈460?nm, photoluminescence quantum yields of >90?%, and krs of nearly 107?s?1, almost 2–10?times higher than previously observed values with comparable reverse intersystem crossing rates. The corresponding blue organic light‐emitting diodes show maximum external quantum efficiencies of 27.8?% and 34.7?% with Commission Internationale de L'Eclairage y coordinates of 0.29 and 0.15 using those molecules as emitters and sensitizers, respectively.(#br)Thermally activated delayed fluorophores a...