The present invention is directed to fluorescent molecular sensor based on Thiazole Orange for protein detection. interaction of the protein target with the molecular sensors of this invention results in a significant increase in the fluorescence emission. The generation of light output signal enables one to detect protein biomarkers associated with different diseases or detecting the protein of interest also in living cells.

The present invention is to provide an iridium complex compound, which is soluble in an organic solvent, which can be stored for long periods without reprecipitation thereof and which secures a low driving voltage and a high luminescent efficiency of an organic electroluminescent element produced using the compound, to provide an organic electroluminescent element containing the compound and to provide a display and a lighting using the organic electroluminescent element. The present invention relates to the iridium complex compound having a specific chemical structure. Further, the invention also relates to the organic electroluminescent element produced using the compound, which requires a low operating voltage and has a long operating lifetime.

Organic light emitting devices are described wherein the emissive layer comprises a host material containing an emissive molecule, which molecule is adapted to luminesce when a voltage is applied across the heterostructure, and the emissive molecule is selected from the group of phosphorescent organometallic complexes, including cyclometallated platinum, iridium and osmium complexes. The organic light emitting devices optionally contain an exciton blocking layer. Furthermore, improved electroluminescent efficiency in organic light emitting devices is obtained with an emitter layer comprising organometallic complexes of transition metals of formula L.sub.2MX, wherein L and X are distinct bidentate ligands. Compounds of this formula can be synthesized more facilely than in previous approaches and synthetic options allow insertion of fluorescent molecules into a phosphorescent complex, ligands to fine tune the color of emission, and ligands to trap carriers.

Disclosed are a compound for an organic optoelectronic device, an organic light emitting diode including the same, and a display device including the organic light emitting diode. The compound for an organic optoelectronic device represented by the following Chemical Formula 1 provides an organic light emitting diode having life-span characteristics due to excellent electrochemical and thermal stability, and high luminous efficiency at a low driving voltage.

A compound represented by D-A-D is useful as a light emitter for an organic electroluminescent device: ##STR00001##

An organic electroluminescent element using a compound represented by the following general formula (I) emits dark blue light and has small changes in the chromaticity and in the driving voltage even after driving for a long period of time: ##STR00001##
wherein R.sup.1 to R.sup.6; Q.sup.1 and Q.sup.2; X.sup.1, X.sup.2, X.sup.3 and X.sup.4 are as defined herein.

The invention relates to purely organic molecules according to formula A without metal center and their use as emitters in organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) and in other optoelectronic devices

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with Y is independently selected from the group consisting of C, PR, S, and S(═O); W is independently selected from the group consisting of C(CN).sub.2, NR, O, and S; X is selected from the group consisting of CR.sup.2, C═C(CN).sub.2, NR, O, and S; Ar is a substituted aryl or heteroaryl group with 5 to 40 aromatic ring atoms, which is substituted with m same or different radicals R* and with n same or different donor groups D with electron-donating properties, wherein m+n equals the number of substitutable ring atoms and wherein D comprises a structure of formula I:

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wherein A and B are independently selected from the group consisting of CRR′, CR, NR, and N, wherein there is a single of a double bond between A and B and a single or a double bond between B and Z; Z is a direct bond or a divalent organic bridge group selected from the group consisting of a substituted or unsubstituted C1-C9-alkylene group, C2-C8-alkenylene group, C2-C8-alkynylene or arylene group or a combination of these, —CRR′, —C═CRR′, —C═NR, —NR—, —O—, —SiRR′—, —S—, —S(O)—, —S(O).sub.2—, O-interrupted substituted or unsubstituted C1-C9-alkylene, C2-C8-alkenylene, C2-C8-alkynylene or arylene groups, and phenyl or substituted phenyl units; wherein the waved line indicates the position over which D is bound to Ar.

This fluorescence observation method is a method of observing a living organism into which a fluorescent dye is injected. The method includes the steps of: irradiating the living organism with excitation light including a wavelength for exciting the fluorescent dye using a light irradiation means, acquiring a first fluorescence image of the living organism generated by the irradiation with the excitation light using an image acquisition means, specifying an observation object in the living organism on the basis of the first fluorescence image; acquiring a second fluorescence image of the observation object generated by the irradiation with the excitation light using the image acquisition means; and specifying a linear fluorescence pattern appearing in the second fluorescence image.

Provided are a compound of Formula 1 and an organic electric element comprising a first electrode, a second electrode, and an organic material layer formed between the first electrode and the second electrode, and electronic device comprising the organic electric element, wherein the driving voltage of the organic electronic device can be lowered, and the luminous efficiency and life span can be improved by comprising the compound represented by Formula 1 in the organic material layer.

An organic light-emitting device including: a first electrode; a second electrode facing the first electrode; and an organic layer between the first electrode and the second electrode and including an emission layer, wherein the organic layer includes: i) a hole transport region between the first electrode and the emission layer, and including at least one selected from a hole injection layer, a hole transport layer, an emission auxiliary layer, and an electron blocking layer, and ii) an electron transport region between the emission layer and the second electrode and including an electron transport layer, in addition to at least one selected from a hole blocking layer, an electron control layer, a buffer layer, and an electron injection layer, wherein the electron transport region includes a compound represented by Formula 1:

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