Review Article
Lanthanide Circularly Polarized Luminescence: Bases and Applications
Francesco Zinna,
Lorenzo Di Bari,
Francesco Zinna
Dipartimento di Chimica e Chimica Industriale, Università di Pisa, Pisa, Italy
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Lorenzo Di Bari
Dipartimento di Chimica e Chimica Industriale, Università di Pisa, Pisa, Italy
Correspondence to: L. Di Bari, Dipartimento di Chimica e Chimica Industriale, Università di Pisa, via Moruzzi 3, I-56124 Pisa, Italy. E-mail: [email protected]Search for more papers by this authorFrancesco Zinna,
Lorenzo Di Bari,
Francesco Zinna
Dipartimento di Chimica e Chimica Industriale, Università di Pisa, Pisa, Italy
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Lorenzo Di Bari
Dipartimento di Chimica e Chimica Industriale, Università di Pisa, Pisa, Italy
Correspondence to: L. Di Bari, Dipartimento di Chimica e Chimica Industriale, Università di Pisa, via Moruzzi 3, I-56124 Pisa, Italy. E-mail: [email protected]Search for more papers by this authorAbstract
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. © 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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