Inorganic Chemistry, Vol.50, No.12, 5477-5484, 2011
First-Principles Studies on the Efficient Photoluminescent Iridium(III) Complexes with C boolean AND N=N Ligands
The electronic structures and photophysical properties of several homoleptic iridium complexes IrL3 with (CN)-N-boolean AND=N ligands, including 1 (L = 3,6-diphenylpyridazine), 2 (L = 1,4-diphenylphthalazine), 3 (L = 3-phenyl-SH-indeno-[1,2-c]pyridazine), and 4 (L = 3-phenylbenzo cinnoline), are investigated using the density functional method. The comparison between the calculated results of the four complexes shows that the assumed complex 4 may possess higher photoluminescent quantum efficiency than complexes 1-3 and is the potential candidate to be an efficient green-emitting material. The photophysical properties of the assumed complex 3 can be comparable to that of experimentally found complex 1. For 1 and 3, the emission energies are nearly the same, consistent with their similar HOMO-LUMO energy gaps. Their emission characters are also similar and mainly dominated by one ligand. For 4 and the experimentally found complex 2, although they have similar HOMO-LUMO energy gaps, and their luminescent nature is nearly the same and dominated by the three ligands, the emission spectrum of 4 is blue-shifted as compared to that of 2.