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Strong Fluorescent Lanthanide Salen Complexes: Photophysical Properties, Excited-State Dynamics, and Bioimaging.

The synthesis, excited-state dynamics, and biological application of luminescent lanthanide salen complexes (Ln = Lu, Gd, Eu, Yb, salen = N, N'-bis(salicylidene)ethylenediamine-based ligands) with sandwich structures are described. Among them, Lu(III) complexes show unusually strong ligand-centered fluorescence with quantum yields up to 62%, although the metal center is close to a chromophore ligand. The excited-state dynamic studies including ultrafast spectroscopy for Ln-salen complexes revealed that their excited states are solely dependent on the salen ligands and the ISC rates are slow (108-109 s-1). Importantly, time-dependent density functional theory calculations attribute the low energy transfer efficiency to the weak spin-orbital coupling (SOC) between the singlet and triplet excited states. More importantly, Lu-salen has been applied as a molecular platform to construct fluorescence probes with organelle specificity in living cell imaging, which demonstrates the advantages of the sandwich structures as being capable of preventing intramolecular metal-ligand interactions and behaviors different from those of the previously reported Zn-salens. Most importantly, the preliminary study for in vivo imaging using a mouse model demonstrated the potential application of Ln coordination complexes in therapeutic and diagnostic bioimaging beyond living cells or in vitro.