Luminescent materials: locking π-conjugated and heterocyclic ligands with boron(III).
Multidisciplinary research on novel organic luminescent dyes is propelled by potential applications in plastic electronics and biomedical sciences. The construction of sophisticated fluorescent dyes around a tetrahedral boron(III) center is a particular approach that has fueled the creativity of chemists. Success in this enterprise has been readily achieved with simple synthetic protocols, the products of which display unusual spectroscopic behavior. This account is a critical review of recent advances in the field of boron(III) complexes (excluding BODIPYs and acetylacetonate boron complexes) involving species displaying similar coordination features, and we outline their potential development in several disciplines.
Laboratoire de Chimie Organique et Spectroscopie Avancées, ICPEES-LCOSA, 25 Rue Becquerel, 67087 Strasbourg Cedex (France) http://icpees.unistra.fr/lcosa/
Denis
D
Frath
Julien
J
Massue
Gilles
G
Ulrich
Raymond
R
Ziessel
D001896:Boron Compounds / Q000737:chemistry*; D006571:Heterocyclic Compounds / Q000737:chemistry*; D008024:Ligands; D049449:Luminescence; D049408:Luminescent Agents / Q000737:chemistry*; D008163:Luminescent Measurements / Q000379:methods
D001896:Boron Compounds; D006571:Heterocyclic Compounds; D008024:Ligands; D049408:Luminescent Agents
boron; dyes/pigments; energy transfer; fluorescence; ligands