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Multimetallic ruthenium(II) complexes as electrochemiluminescent labels
Two homometallic complexes containing two and three ruthenium polypyridyl units linked by amino acid lysine (Lys) and the related dipeptide (LysLys) were synthesized and their electrochemical, spectroscopic, and electrochemiluminescence (ECL) properties were investigated. The electrochemical and photophysical data indicate that the two metal complexes largely retain the electronic properties of the reference compound for the separate ruthenium moieties in the two bridged complexes, [4-carboxypropyl-4'-methyl-2,2'-bipyridine]bis(2,2'-bipyridine)ruthenium(II) complex. The ECL studies, performed in aqueous media in the presence of tri-n-propylamine as co-reactant, show that the ECL intensity increases by 30% for the dinuclear and trinuclear complexes compared to the reference. Heterogeneous ECL immunoassay studies, performed on larger dendritic complexes containing up to eight ruthenium units, demonstrate that limitations due to the slow diffusion can easily be overcome by means of nanoparticle technology. In this case, the ECL signal is proportional to the number of ruthenium units. Multimetallic systems with several ruthenium centers may, however, undergo nonspecific bonding,to streptavidin-coated particles or to antibodies, thereby increasing the background ECL intensity and lowering the sensitivity of the immunoassay
Clathrates of organic onium halides, V: preparation of new clathrates and structure of the 1-propanol inclusion of a bis-quinuclidinium salt
Photophysics and Electrochemiluminescence of Bright Cyclometalated Ir(III) Complexes in Aqueous Solutions
A family of neutral bis-cyclometalated
iridium complexes [IrÂ(C<sup>∧</sup>N)<sub>2</sub>(LX)] has
been investigated as ECL labels
under immunoassay conditions. Among them, the complex based on phenylphenanthridine
(pphent) as the C<sup>∧</sup>N ligand, exhibits outstanding
performance and it is a candidate to substitute the commercially available
Ru-based label in diagnostics