Star-Shaped Donor-π-Acceptor Conjugated Oligomers with 1,3,5-Triazine Cores: Convergent Synthesis and Multifunctional Properties

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Abstract

Monodispersed oligomers have been widely developed and used in different optoelectronic areas due to their well-defined molecular structures, high purity, and solution processability. Star-shaped oligomers are especially interesting for OLED application because of their antiaggregation abilities and stable electroluminescence. In addition, star-shaped donor-pi-acceptor conjugated molecules are known to afford good nonlinear optical and two-photon absorption properties due to the intramolecular charge transfer and cooperative enhancement effects. In this context, three generations of highly soluble 1,3,5-triazine based donor-pi-acceptor compounds, TFT1, TFT2, and TFT3, were prepared through a convergent synthetic strategy and their optoelectronic properties were fully studied, which showed distinct correlations with the structures. Closed-aperture and open-aperture Z-scan methods were employed to measure the nonlinear refractive index and two-photon absorption properties of the oligomers, respectively. TFT1 showed a high nonlinear refractive index of 4.14 x 10(-12) esu in THF solution with an excitation wavelength of 800 nm. Also, TFT1 exhibited a large two-photon absorption cross section of 234 GM and a frequency up-converted two-photon excited fluorescence with a lambda(TPEF)(max) value of 527 nm under 800 nm laser irradiation with a pulse duration of 140 fs. OLED devices using the spin-coated films of these oligomers as an active layer showed intensive blue electroluminescence with a maximum luminance of 3093 cd/m(2) at a current efficiency of 1.47 cd/A from TFT1.

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