Pritchard, Victoria E. and Thorp-Greenwood, Flora L. and Balasingham, Rebeca G. and Williams, Catrin F. and Kariuki, Benson M. and Platts, James A. and Hallett, Andrew J. and Coogan, Michael (2013) Simple polyphenyl zirconium and hafnium metallocene room-temperature lumophores for cell imaging. Organometallics, 32 (12). 3566–3569. ISSN 0276-7333
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Zirconium and Hafnium metallocene dihalides based on simple poly-phenyl cyclopentadienes are stable room temperature lumophores with large Stokes shifts, emitting from states with substantial LMCT character. Their synthesis is described, including by a rapid solvent-free approach compatible with the lifetime of PET-active isotopes (89Zr). Preliminary experiments indicate the viability of these species as lumophores for fluorescence cell-imaging microscopy.