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US 9133177
Ambipolar small molecule hosts for phosphorescent guest emitters
Current assignee: Georgia Tech Research Corp
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Patent Overview — US9133177B2
Title: Ambipolar small molecule hosts for phosphorescent guest emitters
Patent number / application: US9133177B2; application US13/379,595; earlier publication US20120168732A1.
Assignee: Georgia Tech Research Corp (original and current assignee as listed).
Key dates (as listed; dates are assumptions, not legal conclusions): priority date 2009-06-24; filing date 2010-06-21; publication of US20120168732A1 on 2012-07-05; patent granted and US9133177B2 published 2015-09-15. Status shown as "Expired – Fee Related," with an adjusted expiration of 2032-06-03.
Inventors: Yadong Zhang, Carlos Zuniga, Gaelle Deshayes, Julie Leroy, Stephen Barlow, Seth R. Marder, Xuyang He, Sung-jin Kim, Bernard Kippelen.
Purpose and plain-language scope: The patent concerns "ambipolar small molecule hosts for phosphorescent guest emitters"—that is, small-molecule host materials intended for use with phosphorescent emitters (as in organic light-emitting device contexts). The recurring structural motif in the excerpted text is an oxadiazole ring: the prior-art keywords include "group," "ambipolar," "oxadiazole," and "mmol," and the listed chemical compounds center on oxadiazole-containing structures. The excerpt shows a generic formula, [1*]C1=C([2*])C([3*])=CC(C2=NN=C([Ar])O2)=C1, and numerous specific compounds built around oxadiazole cores bearing carbazole-type (indoline/dicarbazolyl) substituents and various solubilizing or polymerizable side groups (for example, norbornene, methacrylate, and alkyl/aryl ether groups). Several reaction schemes and intermediates appear, such as hydrazide intermediates and cyclization steps using POCl₃, suggesting synthesis routes.
Source: https://patents.google.com/patent/US9133177B2/en
What the excerpt does not establish: The supplied text is excerpted and does not include the full claim set, specification, definitions of substituents [1*], [2*], [3*], or [Ar], device examples, performance data, or the complete written description. It therefore does not establish the precise metes and bounds of the claimed subject matter, the number and scope of claims, or any technical results.
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