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Eu (III) complex of a macrocyclic ligand derived from 2, 2′-bipyridine and iminodiacetic acid: Synthesis, luminescence and phosphate diester transesterification …
A very convenient synthesis of a macrocyclic ligand bearing two endocyclic amide and two exocyclic carboxylate groups (lanthanide binding sites) and one sensitizer (2, 2′-biphridine unit) is described. It is shown that the corresponding Eu (III) complex bearing a single positive charge and incorporating two water molecules in the first coordination sphere of the metal ion is strongly fluorescent on the basis of energy-transfer luminescence (Φ= 0.36 in ...
[Neverov, Alexei A.; Lu, Zhong-Lin; Maxwell, Christopher I.; Mohamed, Mark F.; White, Christopher J.; Tsang, Josephine S. W.; Brown, R. Stan Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2006 , vol. 128, # 50 p. 16398 - 16405]