Compounds MBZ-mPXZ, MBZ-2PXZ, MBZ-oPXZ, EBZ-PXZ, and TBZ-PXZ were conveniently
synthesized, and they were found to exhibit TADF properties with lifetimes
of 857, 575, 561, 768, and 600 ns, respectively. These short lifetimes
of the compounds might be due to the combination of small singlet–triplet
splitting energy (ΔEST) and benzoate
group, which could be an efficient strategy for the further design
of short-lifetime TADF materials.