Synthesis, spectroscopy, and electrochemistry of ionic hosts for organic electronics

We report on charge- and ion-transport ionic hosts made from an imidazolium-cation-modified aryl-1,2,4-triazole, phosphineoxide-carbazole, and phosphineoxide. The hosts are white solids that have short-wavelength absorption cut-off at 28,200 cm(-1)) and that exhibit oxidation at (-2.75) V against ferrocene with a wide redox gap of >3.9 V. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.