The study of the complexation of anions, from its beginnings in the late 1960s and 1970s,(1-
3) has moved on from being an area solely of academic interest to a fundamental pillar of …

Recent developments (2012 and onwards) in the design and application of luminescent
lanthanide-based complexes for chemical sensing are reviewed. Sensors for a variety of …

Reversible anion binding at lanthanide centres in aqueous media has emerged as an
effective means of signalling and sensing the presence of selected anions. The constitution …

Herein, some of the recent developments in the design and study of transition metal (d-
metal) and lanthanide (f-metal) based sensors, probes and reagents for detecting anions in …

The design principles, mechanism of action and performance of europium (III) complexes
that serve as strongly emissive and responsive molecular probes in water are critically …

Upconversion (UC) is the process by which the energy of multiple photons is absorbed by a
compound and restored in the form of a photon of higher energy than the incident light …

Because of hydration, fluoride ions in water typically elude complexation by neutral Lewis
acids. Here, we show how this limitation can be overcome with a bidentate Lewis acid …

Up conversion is an Anti-Stokes luminescent process by which photons of low energy are
piled up to generate light at a higher energy. Here we show that the addition of fluoride …

Several series of selectively deuterated 2, 2′-bipyridine-based cryptates with the near-IR
emissive lanthanoids Pr, Nd, Er, and Yb are reported. The structural and luminescence …

Macrocyclic chelators play a central role in medical imaging and nuclear medicine owing to
their unparalleled metal cation coordination abilities. Their functionalization by fluorinated …