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Product Code M2502B1-250mg
Price $208 ex. VAT

TADF Blue Cyanoarene-based Host Material

Donor-acceptor type TADF material for highly efficient OLEDs, available in unsublimed (≥98%) and sublimed (≥99%) grade


3CzBN is a benzonitrile derivate with three electron-doating carbazole units at meta-positions to each other. The D-A type structure is designed to maximize electronic delocalization across the molecule. 3CzBN has a ΔEST value of 0.21 eV and shows no TADF emission in toluene solution at room temperature however solvent freezing leads to the appearance of both the phosphorescence and thermally-activated emission bands. Also, because of the huge drop of ΔEST(LE) value, the energy gap between the singlet charge-transfer (1CT) and triplet locally excited (3LE) states from 0.20 eV in toluene to 0.09 eV in acetonitrile, 3CzBN becomes TADF active in acetonitrile.

High purity 3CzBN

Unsublimed and Sublimed

High purity ≥99%

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Switchable TADF

Switchable TADF

TADF active in CH3CN

Narrow energy gap

Narrow Triplet and Singlet Energy Gap

ΔEST(LE) of 0.09 eV

Being a high-triplet-energy host with favourable carrier injection/transporting abilities, 3CZBN enables blue TADF device based on 4TCzBN dopant with a maximum external quantum efficiency of 14.8%, a maximum power efficiency of 29.5 lm W−1 and an ultra-low onset voltage of 2.8 V.

General Information


CAS number 1799923-03-7
Chemical formula C43H26N4
Molecular weight 598.69 g/mol
Absorption* λmax n.a.
Fluorescence λem 432 nm (Toluene)
HOMO/LUMO HOMO = 5.75 eV, LUMO = 2.61 eV (ΔEST = 0.21 eV)
Synonyms 2,4,6-Tri(9H-carbazol-9-yl)benzonitrile
Classification / Family Cyanoarenes, Carbazole derivatives, TADF blue host.

Product Details


Purity Unsublimed >98% (HNMR), Sublimed ≥99% (HPLC)
Melting point Tg = 153 °C, Td = 401 °C
Appearance Off-white powder


Chemical Structure


Chemical structure of 3CzBN
Chemical structure of 3CzBN, CAS No: 1799923-03-7

MSDS Documentation


3CzBN MSDS Sheet3CzBN MSDS Sheet

Literature and Reviews


  1. T. HosoKai et al. (2019); TADF activation by solvent freezing: The role of nonradiative triplet decay and spin-orbit coupling in carbazole benzonitrile derivatives, Synth. Met., 152, 62-68; DOI: 10.1016/j.synthmet.2019.04.005.
  2. D. Zhang et al. (2016); Highly efficient blue thermally activated delayed fluorescent OLEDs with record-low driving voltages utilizing high triplet energy hosts with small singlet–triplet splittings, Chem. Sci., 7, 3355; DOI: 10.1039/c5sc04755b.
  3. T. Hosokai et al. (2018); Solvent-dependent investigation of carbazole benzonitrile derivatives: does the 3LE − 1CT energy gap facilitate thermally activated delayed fluorescence?, J. Photon. Energy, 8(3), 032102; DOI: 10.1117/1.JPE.8.032102.

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