[Cu(bpy)(P^P)]⁺ containing light-emitting electrochemical cells: improving performance through simple substitution

Sarah Keller; Edwin C Constable; Catherine E Housecroft; Markus Neuburger; Alessandro Prescimone; Giulia Longo; Antonio Pertegás; Michele Sessolo; Henk J Bolink

doi:10.1039/c4dt02847c

[Cu(bpy)(P^P)]⁺ containing light-emitting electrochemical cells: improving performance through simple substitution

Dalton Trans. 2014 Nov 28;43(44):16593-6. doi: 10.1039/c4dt02847c.

Authors

Sarah Keller¹, Edwin C Constable, Catherine E Housecroft, Markus Neuburger, Alessandro Prescimone, Giulia Longo, Antonio Pertegás, Michele Sessolo, Henk J Bolink

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemistry, University of Basel, Spitalstrasse 51, CH4056 Basel, Switzerland. [email protected] [email protected].

PMID: 25294297
DOI: 10.1039/c4dt02847c

Abstract

Light-emitting electrochemical cells (LECs) containing [Cu(POP)(N^N)][PF6] (POP = bis(2-diphenylphosphinophenyl)ether, N^N = 6-methyl- or 6,6'-dimethyl-2,2'-bipyridine) exhibit luminance and efficiency surpassing previous copper(I)-containing LECs.