Citation: ZHANG Li-Ping, CHAI Wan-Dong, JIN Rui-Fa. Rational Design of Star-shaped Molecules with Benzene Core and Naphthalimide Derivatives End Groups as Organic Light-emitting Materials[J]. Chinese Journal of Structural Chemistry, ;2016, 35(12): 1811-1818. doi: 10.14102/j.cnki.0254-5861.2011-1319 shu

Rational Design of Star-shaped Molecules with Benzene Core and Naphthalimide Derivatives End Groups as Organic Light-emitting Materials

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College of Physical and Electronic and Information Engineering, Chifeng University, Chifeng 024000, China
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Inner Mongolia Key Laboratory of Photoelectric Functional Materials, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Chifeng University, Chifeng 024000, China

Corresponding author: JIN Rui-Fa, Ruifajin@163.com
Received Date: 13 June 2016
Accepted Date: 16 August 2016

Fund Project: Natural Science Foundation of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region 2015MS0201Research Program of Sciences at Universities of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region NJZZ235National Natural Science Foundation of China 21563002

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A series of star-shaped molecules with benzene core and naphthalimides derivatives end groups have been designed to explore their optical, electronic, and charge transport properties as charge transport and/or luminescent materials for organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs). The frontier molecular orbitals (FMOs) analysis has turned out that the vertical electronic transitions of absorption and emission are characterized as intramolecular charge transfer (ICT). The calculated results show that the optical and electronic properties of star-shaped molecules are affected by the substituent groups in N-position of 1,8-naphthalimide ring. Our results suggest that star-shaped molecules with n-butyl (1), benzene (2), thiophene (3), thiophene S',S'-dioxide (4), benzo[c][1,2,5]thiadiazole (5), and 2,7a-dihydrobenzo[d]thiazole (6) fragments are expected to be promising candidates for luminescent and electron transport materials for OLEDs. This study should be helpful in further theoretical investigations on such kind of systems and also to the experimental study for charge transport and/or luminescent materials for OLEDs.
- 1,8-naphthalimide derivatives,
- optical and electronic properties,
- charge transport property,
- luminescent materials,
- organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs)
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