Luminescent chemodosimeters for bioimaging

Y Yang, Q Zhao, W Feng, F Li - Chemical Reviews, 2013 - ACS Publications
Luminescence bioimaging offers a unique approach for visualizing morphological details of
tissues with subcellular resolution and has become a powerful tool for the manipulation and …

Phosphorescent chemosensors based on heavy-metal complexes

Q Zhao, F Li, C Huang - Chemical Society Reviews, 2010 - pubs.rsc.org
Recently, the use of phosphorescent heavy-metal complexes as chemosensors has
attracted increasing interest due to their advantageous photophysical properties. This critical …

Recent developments in the application of phosphorescent iridium (III) complex systems

C Ulbricht, B Beyer, C Friebe, A Winter… - Advanced …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
The recent developments in using iridium (III) complexes as phosphorescent emitters in
electroluminescent devices, such as (white) organic light‐emitting diodes and light‐emitting …

Heavy metal organometallic electrophosphors derived from multi-component chromophores

WY Wong, CL Ho - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2009 - Elsevier
Transition-metal-based phosphorescent materials have recently received considerable
academic and industrial attention for fabricating electrophosphorescent organic light …

Design of luminescent iridium (III) and rhenium (I) polypyridine complexes as in vitro and in vivo ion, molecular and biological probes

KKW Lo, MW Louie, KY Zhang - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2010 - Elsevier
Many luminescent transition metal polypyridine complexes display intense and long-lived
triplet charge-transfer and intraligand transition emission with a large Stokes' shift. These …

Developments in PDT sensitizers for increased selectivity and singlet oxygen production

N Mehraban, HS Freeman - Materials, 2015 - mdpi.com
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a minimally-invasive procedure that has been clinically
approved for treating certain types of cancers. This procedure takes advantage of the …

Cationic iridium (III) complexes with tunable emission color as phosphorescent dyes for live cell imaging

Q Zhao, M Yu, L Shi, S Liu, C Li, M Shi, Z Zhou… - …, 2010 - ACS Publications
Phosphorescent heavy-metal complexes exhibit relatively long lifetimes and significant
Stokes shifts for easy separation of excitation and emission and could be used as promising …

Photooxidation of 1, 5-dihydroxynaphthalene with iridium complexes as singlet oxygen sensitizers

S Takizawa, R Aboshi, S Murata - Photochemical & Photobiological …, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
Photooxidation reactions of 1, 5-dihydroxynaphthalene (DHN) have been carried out in the
presence of cyclometalated neutral and cationic iridium (Ir) complexes 1–6 as singlet …

Development of luminescent iridium (III) polypyridine complexes as chemical and biological probes

KKW Lo, SPY Li, KY Zhang - New Journal of Chemistry, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
A number of luminescent iridium (III) polypyridine complexes have been designed as
molecular sensors owing to their rich photophysical properties such as intense, long-lived …

Selective phosphorescence chemosensor for homocysteine based on an iridium (III) complex

H Chen, Q Zhao, Y Wu, F Li, H Yang, T Yi… - Inorganic …, 2007 - ACS Publications
A new homocysteine-selective sensor based on the iridium (III) complex Ir (pba) 2
(acac)(Hpba= 4-(2-pyridyl) benzaldehyde; acac= acetylacetone) was synthesized, and its' …