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Multiphoton-Excited Luminescent Lanthanide Bioprobes: Two- and Three-Photon Cross Sections of Dipicolinate Derivatives and Binuclear Helicates

Majed Chergui, Jean-Claude Bünzli, Frank van Mourik, Andrea Cannizzo, Anne-Sophie Chauvin, Bo Song, Svetlana Eliseeva, Gerald Auböck

Multiphoton excited luminescent properties of water-soluble EuIII and TbIII complexes with derivatives of dipicolinic acid functionalized with a polyoxyethylene pendant arm and terminal groups, [Eu(LOMe)3]3-, [Eu(LNH2)3]3-, and [Tb(LOH)3]3-, as well as of ...

2010

Lanthanide light for biology and medical diagnosis

Jean-Claude Bünzli

Optical imaging emerges as a vital component of the various techniques needed to meet the stringent requirements of modern bioanalysis and bioimaging. Lanthanide luminescent bioprobes (LLBs) have greatly contributed to this field during the past 35 years b ...

Elsevier Science Bv2016

Exploring the potential of europium(III) luminescence for the detection of phase transitions in ionic liquid crystals

Jean-Claude Bünzli, Anne-Sophie Chauvin, Frédéric Gumy

The ionic liquid crystal [C12-mim]Cl has been doped with 5 mol% europium nitrate and the photophysical properties of both the ionic liquid and the trivalent europium ion have been monitored with respect to temperature in the range of 248 to +120 uC. The re ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2007

Guidelines for Measurement of Luminescence Spectra and Quantum Yields of Inorganic Compounds, Metal Complexes, and Materials

Jean-Claude Bünzli

Guidelines for measuring luminescence of inorganic compounds, metal complexes and organometallic compounds are described. Common textbooks and manuals describing these measurements are usually aimed for physical and/or organic chemists and are not always s ...

International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry2016

Intense near-infrared luminescence of a mesomorphic ionic liquid doped with lanthanide b-diketonate ternary complexes

Jean-Claude Bünzli, Kurt Schenk

The ionic liquid 1-dodecyl-3-methylimidazole chloride ([C12- mim]Cl) is doped with 1 mol-% of the lanthanide ternary complexes [Ln(tta)3(phen)] (tta = thenoyltrifluoroacetonate, phen = 1,10-phenanthroline, Ln = Nd, Eu, Er, Yb), resulting in luminescent mes ...

2005

Benefiting from the Unique Properties of Lanthanide Ions

Jean-Claude Bünzli

The recent upsurge of interest in contrast agents for magnetic resonance imaging, of luminescent chemosensors for medical diagnostic, and lately, for optical imaging of cells has generated an impressive momentum for the coordination and supramolecular chem ...

American Chemical Society2006

Lanthanide-containing luminescent molecular edifices

Jean-Claude Bünzli

The first part of this short review focuses on the insertion of luminescent lanthanide ions into molecular compounds. The main requirements for the development of highly luminescent chelates with potential applications in biomedical analysis and time-resol ...

2006

Lanthanide Triple-Stranded Helicates: Controlling the Yield of the Heterobimetallic Species

Rosario Scopelliti, Jean-Claude Bünzli, Thomas Binderup Jensen

Two unsymmetrical ditopic hexadentate ligands designed for the simultaneous recognition of two different trivalent lanthanide ions have been synthesized, LAB2 and LAB3, where A represents a tridentate benzimidazole-pyridinebenzimidazole coordination unit, ...

2006

Visible-Light Excitation of Infrared Lanthanide Luminescence via Intra-Ligand Charge-Transfer State in 1,3-Diketonates Containing Push-Pull Chromophores

Rosario Scopelliti, Jean-Claude Bünzli, Frédéric Gumy

A new 1,3-diketonato ligand containing both an electron-donor [4-(dimethylamino)benzene] and an electron-acceptor (4- nitrobenzene) group and its lanthanide complexes have been prepared. They display an intense intra-ligand charge-transfer absorption trans ...

2008

Lanthanide Complexes with a Calix[8]arene Bearing Phosphinoyl Pendant Arms

Jean-Claude Bünzli, Anne-Sophie Chauvin

The phosphinoyl-substituted macrocyclic receptor B8bL8, derived from p-tert-butylcalix[8]arene, was synthesized and its structure was studied in solution. According to temperaturedependent 1H and 31P NMR spectroscopic data, the calix[8]arene adopts a so-ca ...

2007

Valence and Site Engineering Enable Efficient Broadband Near‐Infrared Emission at 960 nm in Cr3+‐Activated Forsterite

Jean-Claude Bünzli

Near‐infrared (NIR) light sources hold great potential for applications in night vision illumination, bio‐imaging, and non‐destructive testing. However, radiationless de‐activation and low absorption restrict the development of high‐efficiency blue light e ...

Wiley2025

Biphenylene-bridged mesostructured organosilica as a novel hybrid host material for Ln(III) (Ln = Eu, Gd, Tb, Er, Yb) ions in the presence of 2-thenoyltrifluoroacetone

Jean-Claude Bünzli

A hierarchically ordered 4,4'-biphenylene-bridged mesoporous organosilica framework (Bp-PMO) has been synthesized with the aim of using it as a new hybrid host for Ln(III) ions. A series of novel organic-inorganic luminescent hybrid materials have been obt ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2013

Designing Simple Tridentate Ligands for Highly Luminescent Europium Complexes

Rosario Scopelliti, Jean-Claude Bünzli, Svetlana Eliseeva

A series of tridentate benz- ACHTUNGTRENUNGimidazole-substituted pyridine-2-carboxylic acids have been prepared with a halogen, methyl or alkoxy group in the 6-position of the benzimidazole ring, which additionally contains a solubilising N-alkyl chain. Th ...

2009

A Polyoxyethylene-Substituted Bimetallic Europium Helicate for Luminescent Staining of Living Cells

Jean-Claude Bünzli, Caroline Vandevyver, Anne-Sophie Chauvin, Steve Comby, Bo Song

The homoditopic ligand

H_2L^{C3}

has been designed to form neutral triple-stranded bimetallic helicates of overall composition [

Ln_2(L^{C3})_3

]. The grafting of the polyoxyethylene fragments ensures water solubility and also favors cell penetration whi ...

2007

Luminescent Lanthanide Helicates Self-Assembled from Ditopic Ligands Bearing Phosphonic Acid or Phosphoester Units

Jean-Claude Bünzli, Anne-Sophie Chauvin, Steve Comby, Cyntia De Piano

A series of hexadentate ditopic receptors incorporating benzimidazole moieties have been designed, which are fitted with phosphonic acid or phosphoethylester coordinating units. In addition, poly(oxyethylene) pendants have been introduced on the benzimidaz ...

2009

Near-Infrared Luminescence of Nine-Coordinate Neodymium Complexes with Benzimidazole-Substituted 8-Hydroxyquinolines

Rosario Scopelliti, Jean-Claude Bünzli, Frédéric Gumy

A new class of benzimidazole-substituted 8-hydroxyquinoline ligands has been prepared that contain a monoanionic tridentate N,N,O-coordinating unit. These ligands form charge-neutral lanthanide complexes of the type [Ln(LR) 3] · nH2O or [Ln2(L2)3] · nH2O ( ...

2008

Lanthanide Photonics: Shaping the Nanoworld

Jean-Claude Bünzli

Lanthanide luminescent materials have gradually become indispensable in a wealth of applications, including phosphors for lighting and displays, security inks and tags, lasers, optical fibers, night vision, photocatalysis, bioprobes, nanoscopy, and light-a ...

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A ruthenium-based metallostar: synthesis, sensitized luminescence and 1H relaxivity

Jean-Claude Bünzli, Lothar Helm, Alain Borel, Loïck Moriggi, Annina Aebischer

Ru-based metallostars Na4{Ru[Ln2bpy-DTTA2(H2O)4]3} (Ln = Y, Gd, and Eu) have been self-assembled in aqueous solution and their relaxivity and optical properties unravelled. The ynthesis and the purification of the new, highly stable heptametallic entities ...

2009

Introducing bulky functional lanthanide cores into thermotropic metallomesogens: a bottom-up approach

Rosario Scopelliti, Jean-Claude Bünzli, Stéphane Suarez

Basic thermodynamic considerations are used to rationalize the formation of thermotropic mesophases incorporating aromatic ligands for trivalent lanthanide metal ions (Ln). Standard flat and bent molecular interfaces, separating the central binding unit fr ...

2006

Time-resolved luminescence microscopy of bimetallic lanthanide helicates in living cells

Jean-Claude Bünzli, Caroline Vandevyver, Anne-Sophie Chauvin, Bo Song

The cellular uptake mechanism and intracellular distribution of emissive lanthanide helicates have been elucidated by time-resolved luminescence microscopy (TRLM). The helicates are non-cytotoxic and taken up by normal (HaCat) and cancer (HeLa, MCF-7) cell ...

2008