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Bioluminescent Bacterial Imaging In Vivo
Published on: November 4, 2012
Luminescent biscarbene iridium(III) complexes as living cell imaging reagents
Yuyang Zhou1, Junli Jia, Wanfei Li
1Division of Nanobiomedicine, Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 398 Ruoshui Road, Suzhou Industrial Park, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215123, PR China.
Abstract:
Five iridium(III) complexes with two N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) ligands and an ancillary ligand have been designed and successfully synthesized. With multicolor photoluminescence and low toxicity, these carbene complexes were tested, for the first time, as living cell imaging reagents and showed promise for application beyond the OLED (organic light emitting diode) area.

