title: 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 Eu(3+) and Tb(3+) 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.
authors.affiliation: Chemical Sciences and Technology Division, CSIR-Network of Institutes for Solar Energy, National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science & Technology (NIIST), Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Thiruvananthapuram-695 019, India. mlpreddy55@gmail.com
authors.forename: M L P
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Reddy
authors.forename: Sarika
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sivakumar
mesh_terms: D001565:Benzoates / Q000737:chemistry*; D028581:Lanthanoid Series Elements / Q000737:chemistry*; D049449:Luminescence; D049408:Luminescent Agents / Q000737:chemistry*; D008163:Luminescent Measurements
chemical_list: D001565:Benzoates; D028581:Lanthanoid Series Elements; D049408:Luminescent Agents