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Luminescent chemosensors by using cyclometalated iridium( iii ) complexes and their applications

2016; Royal Society of Chemistry; Volume: 8; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1039/c6sc04175b

2041-6539

Dik‐Lung Ma, Sheng Lin, Wanhe Wang, Chao Yang, Chung‐Hang Leung,

Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials

Luminescent metal complexes have found increasing use in multiple areas of science and technology, including in chemosensing, light-emitting devices and photochemistry. In particular, the use of cyclometalated iridium(iii) complexes as chemosensors has received increasing attention in the recent literature. Phosphorescent metal complexes enjoy a number of advantages (e.g., long-lived phosphorescence, high quantum efficiency and modular syntheses) that render them as suitable alternatives to organic dyes for sensing a variety of analytes. This review describes recent examples of cyclometalated iridium(iii) complexes that act as luminescent chemosensors for cations, anions or small molecules.