Journal
CHIRALITY
Volume 27, Issue 1, Pages 1-13Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/chir.22382
Keywords
lanthanides; chiral complexes; luminescence; circularly polarized luminescence; CPL; luminescent bioprobes; chiroptical spectroscopy; luminescence dissymmetry factor
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- MIUR-PRIN [2012A4Z2RY]
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Lanthanide (III) luminescence is very characteristic: it is characterized by narrow emission bands, large Stokes shift, and a long excited state lifetime. Moreover, chiral lanthanide complexes can emit strongly circularly polarized light in a way that is almost precluded to purely organic molecules. Thanks to the sensitivity and specificity of the Ln circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) signal, CPL-active complexes are therefore employed as bioanalytical tools and other uses can be envisaged in many other fields. Here we present a brief overview of the most recently developed CPL-active lanthanide complexes and a selected few examples of their applications. We briefly discuss the main mechanisms that can rationalize the observed outstanding CPL properties of these systems, and some practical suggestions on how to measure and report data. Chirality 27:1-13, 2015. (c) 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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