Coordination‐Induced Emission from Tetraphenylethylene Units and Their Applications.

Yu, Jian‐Gang; Sun, Li‐Ying; Wang, Chong; Li, Yang; Han, Ying‐Feng

Thanks to the potential of aggregation‐induced emission (AIE) phenomena, improved stabilities, and the good selectivity and sensitivity of the chemical responses exhibited by the products, coordination‐driven self‐assembly with tetraphenylethylene (TPE) units has recently received much attention and has been widely investigated for application in chemical sensors, cell imaging agents, light‐harvesting systems, and others. Several reviews have emerged on the topics of AIE chemistry and aggregation‐induced emission luminogen (AIEgen)‐based supramolecular assembles, however, there is still a distinct lack of full overviews of emission enhancement from the viewpoint of metal‐coordination effects. Thus, this minireview offers recent advances that have been made in the design and application of TPE‐based metallacycles, metallacages, metal‐organic frameworks (MOFs) and coordination polymers (CPs).

IMAGING systems in chemistry; TETRAPHENYLETHYLENE; COORDINATION polymers; CHEMICAL detectors; CELL imaging; METAL-organic frameworks; SUPRAMOLECULAR chemistry

Chemistry - A European Journal, 2021, Vol 27, Issue 5, p1556

0947-6539

Academic Journal

10.1002/chem.202002830