Electrophosphorescence based on cyclometalated Ir and Pt complexes has attracted broad attentions from academia and industries, owing to the potential of these complexes for harvesting both electrogenerated singlet and triplet excitons to achieve 100% internal quantum efficiency.[1] Efficient blue, green, and red phosphorescent organic light-emitting devices (OLEDs) have been fabricated with the judicious ligand design of these Ir and Pt complexes. [2][3][4] Compared with reported efficient green-and red-phosphorescent OLEDs, [2] few choices of materials are provided for the fabrication of blue-phosphorescent OLEDs, which is considered to be important to the applications of OLEDs for displays and solid-state lighting. So far, the approaches to achieve efficient blue-phosphorescent OLEDs are focused on Ir-based complexes, by either adopting high-tripletenergy ligands such as 4,6-difluorophenylpyridine [3a-e] and 1-phenyl-3-methylimidazolium [3f] or by using electronwithdrawing ancillary ligands such as picolinate (FIrPic), [3a] tetrakis(1-pyrazolyl)borate (FIr6), [3b,c] triazolate (FIrtaz), and tetrazolate (FIrN4).[3d] Although some Pt complexes have been reported to show blue phosphorescent emission at room temperature, the quality of light emission and the efficiency of devices that use current Pt complexes are not comparable to those using Ir alternatives.[4a-c] For example, devices based on (Fig. 1) Therefore, designing and studying Pt(N^C^N)X materials for application in blue-and white-phosphorescent OLEDs is a worthwhile undertaking. In this Communication we report the photophysics, electrochemistry, and electroluminescent properties of a novel platinum [1,3-difluoro-4,6-di(2-pyridinyl)benzene] chloride , shown in Figure 1. Blueemitting devices based on this complex showed a peak EQE of 16% ph/el and CIE coordinates of (0.15, 0.26). Single-dopant white-emitting devices based on this complex showed a peak EQE of ca. 9.3% ph/el and CIE coordinates of (0.33, 0.36). The electrochemistry of FPt and Pt-4 was examined using cyclic voltammetry. Pt-4 showed a reversible reduction at Ă2.06 V (versus Fc ĂŸ /Fc) and an irreversible oxidation at 0.5 V in N,N-dimethyl formamide (DMF) solution, whereas FPt has a reversible reduction at Ă2.29 V and an irreversible oxidation at 0.5 V, comparable to the literature data.[4a]The lower reduction potential of Pt-4 suggests that Pt-4 has a deeper lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (LUMO) energy level than FPt. The room-temperature absorption and emission spectra of FPt and Pt-4 are shown in Figure 2. Both of them display very intense absorption bands (e > 1.5 Ă 10 4 M Ă1 cm Ă1 ) at wavelength between 250-300 nm, assigned to 1 p-p* transitions of the cyclometalating ligands.Weaker bands at longer wavelength (300-400 nm, e ÂŒ 5000-9000 M Ă1 cm
Ă1) were assigned to metal-to-ligand charge-transfer (MLCT) transitions. The lowest-energy absorption bands (460-470 nm, e ÂŒ 40-150 M Ă1 cm Ă1