Twisted bimesitylene-based oxadiazoles as novel host materials for phosphorescent OLEDs

The D2d-symmetric bimesitylene core has been exploited for designing novel host materials required in the construction of phosphorescence-based organic light emitting devices. The oxadiazole-functionalized twisted bimesitylenes are found to exhibit high band gap (triplet energies), and excellent glass transition temperatures and thermal stabilities for ready exploitation as host materials. The electron-transporting ability and respectable luminance efficiencies with triplet dopants (up to 19.0 cd/A) allow oxadiazole-functionalized bimesitylenes as promising materials for phosphorescence-based light emitting devices, namely PHOLEDs.