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INORGANIC CHEMISTRY
卷 54, 期 13, 页码 6582-6593出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.5b00944
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- Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications [NY213097]
- City University of Hong Kong [9667090, 7004210]
- Croucher Foundation
In this Article, we present a series of cyclometalated iridium(III) polypyridine complexes of the formula [Ir(N boolean AND C)(2)(N boolean AND AN)] (PF6) that showed dual emission under ambient conditions. The structures of the cyclometalating and diimine ligands were changed systematically to investigate the effects of the substituents on the dual-emission properties of the complexes. On the basis of the photophysical data, the high-energy (HE) and low-energy (LE) emission features of the complexes were assigned to triplet intraligand ((IL)-I-3) and triplet charge-transfer ((CT)-C-3) excited states, respectively, Time-dependent density functional theory (TD-DFT) calculations supported these assignments and indicated that the dual emission resulted from the interruption of the communication between the higher-lying (IL)-I-3 and the lower-lying (CT)-C-3 states by a triplet amine-to-ligand charge-transfer ((NLCT)-N-3) state. Also, the avidin-binding properties of the biotin complexes were studied by emission titrations, and the results showed that the dual-emissive complexes can be utilized as ratiometric probes for avidin. Additionally, all the complexes exhibited efficient cellular uptake by live HeLa cells. The MTT and Annexin V assays confirmed that no cell death and early apoptosis occurred during the cell imaging experiments. Interestingly, laser-scanning confocal microscopy revealed that the complexes were selectively localized on the cell membrane, mitochondria, or both, depending on the nature of the substituents of the ligands. The results of this work will contribute to the future development of dual-emissive transition metal complexes as ratiometric probes and organelle-selective bioimaging reagents.
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