Facile synthesis of 5,10-diaryl-5,10-dihydrophenazines and application to EL devices

Org Lett. 2003 Feb 6;5(3):373-6. doi: 10.1021/ol0274458.

Abstract

[structures: see text] An efficient method for the synthesis of 5,10-diaryldihydrophenazine was developed using a recently developed Pd(0)-mediated cross-coupling reaction. The products 1k and 3c showed excellent properties as hole injection materials in electroluminescent (EL) devices.