Abstract: Methods for deposition of elemental metal films on surfaces using metal coordination complexes comprising nitrogen-containing ligands are provided. Also provided are nitrogen-containing ligands useful in the methods of the invention and metal coordination complexes comprising these ligands.

Abstract: A process for preparing alkylated p-phenylenediamine having the steps of reacting aniline and nitrobenzene in presence of a complex base catalyst to obtain 4-aminodiphenylamine intermediates, hydrogenating the 4-aminodiphenylamine intermediates to 4-aminodiphenylamine in presence of a hydrogenation catalyst, and reductively alkylating the 4-aminodiphenylamine to alkylated p-phenylenediamine.

Abstract: There is provided a hole transport compound having Formula I or Formula II: Ar1 is the same or different at each occurrence and can be phenylene, naphthylene, or binaphthylene. Ar2 is the same or different at each occurrence and can be phenyl, biphenyl, terphenyl, naphthyl, or binaphthyl. m and n are the same or different and are an integer greater than 0. T is the same or different at each occurrence and is a conjugated moiety including at least one triarylamino group. The T moiety is connected in a non-planar configuration.

Abstract: A composition includes: (B) an arylamine derivative having at least one polymerizable group; and (A) a cyano group-free azo based polymerization initiator.

Abstract: Disclosed are a compound comprising a five-membered hetero ring, an organic electrical element using the same and a terminal thereof.

Abstract: An organic light-emitting device includes a first electrode, a mixed organic layer, an emission layer, an electron transport layer, and a second electrode. The mixed organic layer contains a fluorene derivative and a pyrazine derivative, and the electron transport layer contains a lithium quinolate and a pyridine derivative.

Abstract: Disclosed is an organic electroluminescent element which can be produced by a wet process, has improved laminated structure, and also has improved external quantum efficiency and an improved service life. The organic electroluminescent element comprises at least an anode; a cathode and a laminated structure intercalated between the anode and the cathode, all of which are arranged on a substrate, wherein the laminated structure has at least four layers formed by a wet process, and wherein the layers produced by the wet process include at least a hole injection layer, a hole transport layer and a light-emitting layer. The organic electroluminescent element is characterized in that the hole injection layer comprises an electrically conductive polymer, the hole transport layer comprises a polymeric compound having a repeating unit represented by general formula (1), and the polymeric compound has a weight average molecular weight of 50,000 to 200,000 in terms of polystyrene content.

Abstract: There are provided an aromatic monoamine derivative having a fluorene structure-containing organic group and an aromatic hydrocarbon group-containing organic group, and an organic electroluminescent element containing an organic thin film layer composed of a single layer or plural layers while including at least a light emitting layer, the organic thin film layer being between a cathode and an anode, wherein at least one layer of the organic thin film layer, particularly a hole transport layer, contains the aromatic amine derivative alone or as a component of a mixture. An organic electroluminescent element which maintains high luminous efficiency even if exposed to a high temperature environment, and has a low driving voltage and a long emission lifetime, and an aromatic amine derivative capable of realizing the organic electroluminescent element are provided.

Abstract: A process for preparing 4-aminodiphenylamine (4-ADPA) comprising steps of coupling of aniline with nitrobenzene in presence of a suitable base, e.g. tetramethylammonium hydroxide (TMAH), hydrogenation of the coupling mass, phase separation, hydrogenation of azobenzene in the separated organic mass and fractional distillation for 4-ADPA recovery. An improvement in 4-ADPA recovery and a lowering of tar formation are obtained due to azobenzene reduction prior to 4-ADPA isolation. Also a gain in volume productivity of 4-ADPA is obtained by suitably altering the batch cycle time of the coupling reaction.

Abstract: An aromatic amine derivative represented by the following formula (1): wherein A1 is a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic group, a substituted or unsubstituted heterocyclic group or an organic group represented by the following formula (2): wherein X1, X2 and X3 are independently a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic group or a substituted or unsubstituted heterocyclic group; X1 and X2 are linkage groups which are different from each other; and B1, B2 and B3 are independently a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic group or a substituted or unsubstituted heterocyclic group.

Abstract: The present invention relates to aromatic amine-terphenyl compounds and use thereof in organic semiconducting components.

Abstract: A composition for forming an antistatic film, includes: an oligomer compound of Formula (1A): (where R1 is a hydrogen atom or a group of Formula (2), each of R2 and R3 is independently a hydrogen atom, a group of Formula (3), or a group of Formula (4), at least one of the plurality of Rs is a sulfo group, a and b are positive integers satisfying 2?(a+b)?6; and each of a plurality of xs is independently an integer from 0 to 4): (where n is an integer satisfying 1?n<(a+b+4); a, b, a plurality of Rs, and x are the same as those in Formula (1A); and each of a plurality of ys is independently an integer from 0 to 5); and water.

Abstract: There is provided an organic compound having excellent characteristics, including excellent electron-injecting/transporting performance, hole blocking ability, and high stability in the thin-film state, for use as material of an organic electroluminescent device having high efficiency and high durability. There is also provided a high-efficient and high-durable organic electroluminescent device using the compound. The compound is represented by general formula (1) having a substituted anthracene ring structure and a pyridoindole ring structure. The organic electroluminescent device includes a pair of electrodes, and one or more organic layers sandwiched between the pair of electrodes, and the compound is used as a constituent material of at least one organic layer.

Abstract: The present invention relates to quinone direct dyes of formula (I) below, organic or mineral acid or base salts thereof, tautomeric forms, optical isomers or geometrical isomers thereof and/or solvates thereof: and also to the use thereof for dyeing keratin fibres, in particular human keratin fibres such as the hair. The invention also relates to a composition for dyeing keratin fibres, comprising such direct dyes in a suitable dyeing medium. Similarly, a subject of the present invention is a process for dyeing keratin fibres, using the said dye composition.

Abstract: An oligoaniline compound represented by the formula (1) can provide a charge transporting thin film which shows a suppressed coloration in the visible range. Use of this thin film makes it possible to ensure a color reproducibility of a device without lowering the color purity of an electroluminescent light or a light having passed through a color filter. wherein R1 to R10 independently represent each a hydrogen atom, a halogen, etc.; m and n independently represent each an integer of 1 or more while satisfying the condition m+n?20; and X is a structure represented by any of the following formulae (4) to (10), etc.; wherein R21 to R36 independently represent each a hydrogen atom, a hydroxyl group, etc.; p and q represent each an integer of 1 or more while satisfying the conditions p?20 and q?20; and W1s independently represent each —(CR1R2)p-, —O—, —S—, etc.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a material which is excellent in a hole injecting property and a hole transporting property, and to provide a light emitting element and a light emitting device using a material which is excellent in a hole injecting property and a hole transporting property. The present invention provides a carbazole derivative represented by a general formula (1). The carbazole derivative according to the present invention is excellent in the hole injecting property. By using the carbazole derivative according to the present invention as a hole injecting material for a hole injecting layer of a light emitting element, a driving voltage can be reduced. In addition, a lower driving voltage, improvement of the luminous efficiency, a longer life time, and higher reliability can be realized by applying the material to a light emitting element or a light emitting device.

Abstract: A copolymer having two or more repeating units selected from the group consisting of arylene groups, divalent heterocyclic groups and divalent aromatic amine groups wherein the copolymer has, on at least one of molecular chain ends, a monovalent heterocyclic group, a monovalent group derived from a heterocyclic group coordinated metal complex, and an aromatic end group selected from aryl groups having a formula weight of 90 or more, and the copolymer shows fluorescence in the solid state and has a polystyrene-reduced weight-average molecular weight of 103 to 108.

Abstract: The invention provides an OLED device including an anode, a cathode and a yellow light-emitting layer located therebetween, the light-emitting layer comprising a 9,10-diarylanthracene host; a yellow light-emitting 5,6,11,12-tetraphenyltetracene derivative where as least 1 of the phenyl groups is further substituted and a non-light-emitting diarylamine substituted 9,10-diarylsubstituted anthracene stabuilizer. Devices of the invention provide improvement in features such as stability and efficiency while maintaining excellent color.

Abstract: The present invention provides an organic electroluminescent device exhibiting a long life, a high luminance, and a high efficiency. An organic electroluminescent device comprising on a substrate an anode, a hole transport layer, an organic light-emitting layer, and a cathode, wherein the organic light-emitting layer contains an organic compound having a pyridine ring, a pyrazine ring, or a triazine ring as a partial structure and the hole transport layer contains a monoamine compound represented by the following formula (I): wherein R1 to R9 represent a hydrogen atom, an aryl group, or an alkyl group; R1 to R9 may be the same or different from each other; and R1 to R9 may further have an aryl group or an alkyl group as a substituent in the case where R1 to R9 are an aryl group or an alkyl group.

Abstract: The present invention relates to novel carbazole derivatives and an organic light-emitting diode device using the same. These carbazole derivatives can simultaneously or singly be used as a hole transporting layer, a host or guest of an emitting layer or an electron transporting layer of an organic light-emitting diode device.

Abstract: Novel aromatic amine compounds are provided. Light-emitting elements having high emission efficiency and high reliability are provided. Further, light-emitting devices and electronic devices using the light-emitting devices are provided. Specifically, an aromatic amine compound represented by the general formula (1), and light-emitting elements, light-emitting devices and electronic devices that are formed using the aromatic amine compound represented by the general formula (1) are provided. By using the aromatic amine compound represented by the general formula (1) for light-emitting elements, light-emitting devices and electronic devices, the light-emitting elements, light-emitting devices and electronic devices can have high emission efficiency.

Abstract: An amine derivative represented by the following general formula (1) and exhibiting a temperature difference of 30° C. or more as defined by the difference of [decomposition temperature (° C.) minus sublimation temperature (° C.)]: wherein R1 and R2 independently represent a substituted or unsubstituted C6-40 aryl or C5-40 heteroaryl group; and R3 and R4 independently represent a hydrogen atom, a straight-chain, branched or cyclic C1-18 alkyl or C1-18 alkoxy group, or a substituted or unsubstituted C6-40 aryl or C5-40 heteroaryl group, provided that R3 and R4 may form together a cyclic hydrocarbon group. The amine derivative is useful as an organic electroluminescent material.

Abstract: The present invention provides an organic light emitting diode comprising a first electrode, a second electrode and an organic material layer of one or more layers disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, in which the organic material layer comprises a light emitting layer, an organic material layer comprising the compound represented by Formula 1 is comprised between the first electrode and the light emitting layer, and the light emitting layer comprises a host comprising the compound represented by Formula 1 and a dopant.

Abstract: A blue fluorescent compound includes a host material being capable of transporting an electron or a hole; and a dopant material represented by following Formula 1: wherein at least two of the R1, the R2, the R3, and the R4 are selected from substituted or non-substituted aromatic group or substituted or non-substituted heterocyclic group, and the R5 is selected from substituted or non-substituted aromatic group or substituted or non-substituted heterocyclic group.

Abstract: A heterocyclic compound represented by Formula 1A and an organic light-emitting device including the heterocyclic compound: at least one of R1 to R13 is a group represented by Formula 1B below: wherein R1 to R15, Ar1, Ar2, A, B, a, and b are defined as in the specification. The organic light-emitting device may include an organic layer containing the heterocyclic compound, and thus may have a low driving voltage, a high-emission efficiency, and long lifespan characteristics.

Abstract: A polymer compound having a repeating unit of the following formula (1): (wherein, R1 represents a substituent, Q1 and Q2 represent a group containing a benzocyclobutane structure, a represents an integer of 0 to 3. When there exist a plurality of R1s, these may be the same or different).

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a light emitting element, which is resistant to repetition of an oxidation reaction. It is another object of the invention to provide a light emitting element, which is resistant to repetition of a reduction reaction. An anthracene derivative is represented by a general formula (1). In the general formula (1), R1 represents hydrogen or an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, R2 represents any one of hydrogen, an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms and an aryl group having 6 to 12 carbon atoms, R3 represents any one of hydrogen, an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, and an aryl group having 6 to 12 carbon atoms, Ph1 represents a phenyl group, and X1 represents an arylene group having 6 to 15 carbon atoms.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a compound of the formula (I), to the use of this compound in an electronic device, and to an electronic device comprising one or more compounds of the formula (I). The invention furthermore relates to the preparation of the compound of the formula (I) and to a formulation comprising one or more compounds of the formula (I).

Abstract: A novel stilbene derivative is provided with motivation of providing a blue emissive material showing excellent color purity. The use of the stilbene derivative of the present invention allows the fabrication of a blue-emissive light-emitting element with excellent color purity. The invention also includes an electronic device equipped with a display portion in which the stilbene derivative is employed. The stilbene derivative of the present invention is represented by formula (1), in which Ar1 and Ar2 may form a 5-membered ring by being directly bonded to each other. In formula (1), A11 represents any one of substituents represented by general formulas (1-1) to (1-3). The variables shown in formula (1) and (1-1) to (1-3) are as defined in the specification.

Abstract: A production method of a triarylamine compound including: producing a particular triarylamine compound by performing a reaction between a specific halogenated triarylamine compound and a specific olefin in the presence of palladium and alkylphosphine.

Abstract: The present invention relates to mixtures of organic materials, to the use of these mixtures in organic electroluminescent devices, and to organic electroluminescent devices comprising these mixtures.

Abstract: The present invention provides green and red conversion films capable of keeping a sufficient intensity of converted light over a long period, and a multicolor emission organic EL device which exhibits light-emitting properties stably over a long period. The present invention includes a pendant-type polymeric compound characterized in that the pendant-type polymeric compound contains at least one repeating unit represented by a general formula (1) and at least one repeating unit represented by a general formula (2), (6) or (7), wherein n/(m+n)=1/100 to 100/100 provided that the molar ratio of (1):(2), (6) or (7) is m:n.

Abstract: A problem of the invention is to provide an organic EL device having a high efficiency, a low driving voltage and a long life, by combining various materials for organic EL device, which are excellent in an injection or transportation performance of holes or electrons, and in stability and durability in a thin film, so as to enable the respective materials to effectively reveal their characteristics. The invention relates to an organic electroluminescent device including at least an anode electrode, a hole-injecting layer, a hole-transporting layer, an emitting layer, an electron-transporting layer and a cathode electrode in this order, in which the hole-injecting layer contains an arylamine compound having, in its molecule, a structure in which three or more triphenylamine structures are connected through a single bond or a hetero atom-free divalent group; and the hole-transporting layer contains an arylamine compound having two triphenylamine structures in its molecule.

Abstract: Tire belt comprising a rubber composition based on at least one isoprene elastomer, a reinforcing filler, a crosslinking system and an antioxidant agent, characterized in that said antioxidant agent comprises a 4,4?-bis(alkylamino)triphenylamine corresponding to the formula (I): in which R1 and R2, which are identical or different, each represent a linear or branched alkyl group having from 1 to 12 carbon atoms or a cycloalkyl group having from 5 to 8 carbon atoms. Such an antioxidant gives the belt of the invention a better long-term resistance to fatigue and to crack propagation.

Abstract: The present invention provides a reagent for measuring a degree of oxidative stress that includes a compound represented by the following general formula (I) or a salt thereof, and a method of measuring a degree of oxidative stress using the reagent for measuring a degree of oxidative stress. In the general formula (I), R1, R2, R3 and R4 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, an ethyl group, an isopropyl group, a hydroxyalkyl group that has 1 to 4 carbon atoms, or a phenyl group, and at least one of R1, R2, R3 or R4 represents an isopropyl group, a hydroxyalkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, or a phenyl group.

Abstract: An anthracene derivative represented by the general formula (G1) is provided. The anthracene derivative represented by the general formula (G1) is a novel anthracene derivative having a wide band gap. Further, the anthracene derivative has a large energy gap and can be very suitably used as a material for a light-emitting element which exhibits blue light emission.

Abstract: Organic compounds and organic electroluminescent devices employing the same are provided.

Abstract: Triarylamine compounds of formula I and methods of using them as hole conducting materials in solar cells. Solar cells that contain these materials.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to electronic devices comprising at least one layer comprising novel cross-linkable polymers. The compounds can function as monomers, and copolymers can be formed from such monomers, such copolymers comprising, as polymerized units, a plurality of units of the compounds. The compositions are especially useful when incorporated into charge transport layers and light-emitting layers of a wide variety of electronic devices.

Abstract: A novel stilbene derivative is provided with motivation of providing a blue emissive material showing excellent color purity. The use of the stilbene derivative of the present invention allows the fabrication of a blue-emissive light-emitting element with excellent color purity. The invention also includes an electronic device equipped with a display portion in which the stilbene derivative is employed. The stilbene derivative of the present invention is represented by formula (1), in which Ar1 and Ar2 may form a 5-membered ring by being directly bonded to each other. In formula (1), A11 represents any one of substituents represented by general formulas (1-1) to (1-3). The variables shown in formula (1) and (1-1) to (1-3) are as defined in the specification.

Abstract: An electrode for use in a electrochemical sensor comprises carbon modified with a chemically sensitive redox-active compound, excluding an electrode based on carbon having derivatised thereron two redox-active species wherein at least one of said species is selected from anthraquinone, phenanthrenequinone and N,N?-diphenyl-p-phenylenediamine (DPPD). The invention further provides a pH sensor comprising: a working electrode comprising carbon modified with a chemically sensitive redox active material; and a counter electrode, wherein the ratio of the surface area of the working electrode to the surface area of the counter electrode is from 1:10 to 10:1. Also provided is a pH sensor comprising: a working electrode comprising carbon modified with a chemically sensitive redox active material, and a counter electrode, wherein the area of the working electrode is from 500 ?m2 to 0.1 m2. The uses of these electrodes and sensors are also described.

Abstract: A heterocyclic compound represented by Formula 1 below and an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) including the same: wherein R1 through R12, Ar1, Ar2, A, B, a, and b are the same as defined above. An OLED including an organic layer including the heterocyclic compound has low driving voltage, high luminous efficiency, and a long lifetime.

Abstract: The present invention relates to polymers which contain certain triarylamine units of the Formula (1) The materials according to the invention exhibit a longer lifetime than materials in accordance with the prior art and therefore more suitable for use in polymeric organic light-emitting diodes.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel heterocyclic derivative and an organic light emitting device using the compound, and the heterocyclic derivative may largely improve a life span, efficiency, electrochemical stability and thermal stability of the organic light emitting device.

Abstract: A compound having Formula I, Formula II, or Formula III: Ar1 may independently be phenylene, substituted phenylene, naphthylene, or substituted naphthylene. Ar2 is the same or different at each occurrence and is an aryl group. M is the same or different at each occurrence and is a conjugated moiety. T1 and T2 are independently the same or different at each occurrence and are conjugated moieties which are connected in a non-planar configuration.

Abstract: Provided is a method for purifying an organic material having a 10% weight reduction temperature of 250° C. or more as measured by thermogravimetry at a vacuum degree of 1×10?2 Pa or less, which may sublime and purify the organic material having high heat resistance at high sublimation temperature with high purity and high yield in a short period of time, in which the organic material is subjected sublimation purification after a concentration of inorganic impurities in the organic material is adjusted to 5,000 ppm or less.

Abstract: A problem of the invention is to provide an organic EL device having a high efficiency, a low driving voltage and a long life, by combining various materials for organic EL device, which are excellent in an injection or transportation performance of holes or electrons, and in stability and durability in a thin film, so as to enable the respective materials to effectively reveal their characteristics. The invention relates to an organic electroluminescent device including at least an anode electrode, a hole-injecting layer, a hole-transporting layer, an emitting layer, an electron-transporting layer and a cathode electrode in this order, in which the hole-injecting layer contains an arylamine compound having, in its molecule, a structure in which three or more triphenylamine structures are connected through a single bond or a hetero atom-free divalent group; and the hole-transporting layer contains an arylamine compound having two triphenylamine structures in its molecule.

Abstract: In OLEDs, improved efficiency is obtained by using compounds of formula [Ar](CH?CH—R1)n wherein n is an integer from 1 to 4; [Ar] is a polycyclic aromatic or heteroaromatic scaffold optionally substituted with one or more alkyl or alkoxy groups; and R1 is a 5-membered heteroaryl group optionally substituted with methyl, methoxy, aryl or heteroaryl, or is phenyl or naphthyl optionally substituted with methyl, methoxy, trifluoromethyl or cyano or is biphenyl or substituted biphenyl. The compounds are believed to be novel and can be made by condensing a compound of formula wherein [Ar] and n are as defined above with a compound of formula [Ar](CH3)nR1CHO in the presence of an acid catalyst e.g. an anhydride of an organic acid.

Abstract: The present invention relates to aromatic amines and to electronic devices in which these amines are used, in particular, as matrix material in the emitting layer and/or as hole-transport material and/or as electron-blocking or exciton-blocking material and/or as electron-transport material.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an organic electronic material that can be easily formed into a multilayer structure. A further object of the present invention is to provide an organic electronic device and an organic EL device that exhibit a better emission efficiency and a better emission lifetime than heretofore achieved. In order to achieve these objects, an organic electronic material is provided, the material includes a polymer or oligomer that has at least one polymerizable substituent and a hole-transporting repeat unit.