Issue 8, 2013

Lanthanide benzoates: a versatile building block for the construction of efficient light emitting materials

Abstract

On account of their intrinsic chemical and spectroscopic properties, luminescent lanthanide molecular materials find potential applications in lighting, optical communications, photonics and biomedical devices. This perspective article summarizes some recent seminal research work on luminescent properties and structural aspects of a series of lanthanide benzoate complexes featuring Eu3+ and Tb3+ ions. In particular, when modified with light-harvesting moieties, benzoates have proven to be efficient sensitizers for lanthanide ions. The photoluminescence properties of the various lanthanide benzoate coordination compounds have also been correlated with the electronic states of the newly designed antenna molecules.

Graphical abstract: Lanthanide benzoates: a versatile building block for the construction of efficient light emitting materials

Article information

Article type
Perspective
Submitted
17 Oct 2012
Accepted
03 Dec 2012
First published
20 Dec 2012

Dalton Trans., 2013,42, 2663-2678

Lanthanide benzoates: a versatile building block for the construction of efficient light emitting materials

M. L. P. Reddy and S. Sivakumar, Dalton Trans., 2013, 42, 2663 DOI: 10.1039/C2DT32470A

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