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Lanthanide complexes as chiral probes exploiting circularly polarized luminescence

Year: 2012

Type: review

Abstract: Optical probes that provide information about local chirality have been developed based on changes to the circular polarisation of emitted light. Highly emissive complexes of lanthanide ions are ideally suited for CPL spectroscopy and the design criteria for developing such probes are defined, based on a rigorous stereochemical analysis. The perturbation of a dynamically racemic complex may occur either by a change in complex constitution or by non-covalent association. With complexes of enantiopure ligands, perturbation may involve either dynamic helicity inversion or a reversible change in the lanthanide coordination environment.

Source: Chemical Society Reviews

DOI: 10.1039/c2cs35242g

Authors: Rachel Carr, Nicholas H. Evans, David Parker

Institution: Durham University

Language: English

Topic: Lanthanide and Transition Metal Complexes

Subfield: Materials Chemistry

Field: Materials Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funder: Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

Award: The development of circularly polarised luminescence microscopy and responsive CPL probes