Four new carbazole-oxadiazole derivatives (3a-b, 6a-b) were prepared from the reaction of aromatic aldehydes and carbohydrazides which were synthesized from carbazole aldehydes namely 9-hexyl-9H-carbazole-3-carbaldehyde 1 and 4-(9H-carbazole-9-yl)benzaldehyde 4 and acid hydrazides. The structures of the new derivatives were confirmed by 1H-NMR and FT-IR. The optical properties such as maximum absorption and emission wavelengths (λ; nm), molar extinction coefficients (ε; cm-1 M-1), Stoke's shifts (ΔλST; nm) and quantum yields (ϕF), of the carbazole-oxadiazole derivatives were declared in dichloromethane, toluene and tetrahydrofuran solutions.
Keywords: 1,3,4-Oxadiazole; Carbazole aldehyde; Carbohydrazide; OLEDs.