Lanthanide ions possess fascinating optical properties and their discovery, first industrial uses and present high technological applications are largely governed by their interaction with light. Lighting devices (economical luminescent lamps, light emitting diodes), television and computer displays, optical fibres, optical amplifiers, lasers, as well as responsive luminescent stains for biomed...

The dinuclear lanthanide complexes [Ln2(L)2(THF)n] (Ln = Nd (1) n = 4, Gd (2) n = 3, Lu (3) n = 2) supported by carbon bridged triphenolate ligands [LH3 = tris(3,5-di-tert-butyl-2-hydroxyphenyl)methane] were synthesized via a salt metathesis reaction between lanthanide trichlorides and LNa3 in THF. All complexes were characterized by elemental analysis and X-ray crystallography, and complex 3 w...

The lanthanide-radical approach has been applied to construct three isomorphous mononuclear lanthanide complexes [Ln(hfac)3(NIT2-PyOCH3)] (Ln(III) = Gd , Tb , Er ) in which the nitronyl nitroxide radical NIT2-PyOCH3 (NIT2-PyOCH3 = 2-(3'-methoxy-2'-pyridyl)-4,4,5,5-tetramethylimidazoline-1-oxyl-3-oxide) acts as a tridentate chelating ligand via the pyridyl nitrogen atom, the oxygen atom from the...

Photovoltaics and photocatalysis are two significant applications of clean and sustainable solar energy, albeit constrained by their inability to harvest the infrared spectrum of solar radiation. Lanthanide-doped materials are particularly promising in this regard, with tunable absorption in the infrared region and the ability to convert the long-wavelength excitation into shorter-wavelength li...

Lanthanide-binding peptide tags (LBTs) containing a single cysteine residue can be attached to proteins via a disulfide bond, presenting a flexible means of tagging proteins site-specifically with a lanthanide ion. Here we show that cysteine residues placed in different positions of the LBT can be used to expose the protein to different orientations of the magnetic susceptibility anisotropy (de...

Time-resolved fluoroimmunoassays that make use of lanthanide chelates as labels require the addition of an enhancement solution to elicit the formation of a fluorescent lanthanide complex. All solutions previously described are based on 2-naphthoyltrifluoroacetone (NTA), a beta-diketone. Currently, this compound is not commercially available. We report here the properties and performance of an ...

Lanthanide-based luminescent probes TPR1 and TPR2 were developed for the detection of hydrogen peroxide (H(2)O(2)) in living systems. The chemoselective reaction of these boronate-protected probes with H(2)O(2) resulted in an enhanced lanthanide sensitization and a 6-fold increase in luminescent intensity. TPR2 was utilized to measure the endogenous production of H(2)O(2) in RAW 264.7 macrophag...

Lanthanide ions are strong Lewis acids. Their complexation to a variety of ligands can further enhance their Lewis acidity allowing the hydrolysis of phosphoesters and even DNA. We show that the interaction of lanthanide ions with vesicles from zwitterionic phosphatidylcholine lipids gives supramolecular structures in which the metal ion is loosely coordinated to the surface. This assembly prov...

Four half-sandwich type mononuclear lanthanide crown ether complexes with the formula [Ln(12-crown-4)(NO3)3] (Ln3+ = Dy3+ (1), Tb3+ (2), Ho3+ (3), and Er3+ (4); 12-crown-4 = 1,4,7,10-tetraoxacyclododecane) were successfully synthesized and structurally characterized. Ac magnetic susceptibility measurements reveal that dysprosium complex 1 behaves as a typical single-ion magnet, while solid stat...

in recent years, using sol-gel procedure for the purpose of laboratory and industrial synthesis of nano-structures, and especially silica nano-particles, has been significantly increased. in this research, silica particles were synthesized by sol-gel procedure and their physical and chemical properties were studied by means of scanning electron microscopy (sem), transmission electron microscopy...