Organics - Electro-optics, lonophores for Sensor Technology
A significant body of research currently exploits the highly luminescent character of ruthenium complexes with bipyridines and phenanthrolines. The ability of such macro-cycles to act as photostable fluorophores and produce long-lived electronically excited states is especially attractive when that feature can be incorporated into a polymeric substrate derived from sol-gel, polyimide or other polymer technologies. The potential for these materials to act as oxygen indicators (and more) has huge implications in fiber optic technology and in a variety of films and coatings.
Of particular interest may be the tetraphenylborate salt of the Bathophenanthroline Ruthenium(II) complex (GFS #2355), where the lipophilic, non-quenching anion serves to increase the solubility of the complex in hydrophobic polymeric media. GFS continues to play an active role in the development of new phenanthroline and bipyridine compounds for research in the most advanced electro-optic technologies.
The long GFS history with amine ligands has been further extended in this catalog. We now offer two of the key porphine materials for R&D - OEP (octaethylporphine for short) and TPP (tetraphenylporphine). The utility of these materials and their transition and precious metal complexes is reflected in the breadth of applications cited in the literature. As we work on expanding this segment of our product line we would be pleased to hear about needs you may have in this area.
A second new GFS product line for sensor technologies is our collection of popular ionophores that are particularly useful in the development of components for chemical sensor fabrication, ion selective electrodes and optodes. These include the Chloride lonophore I, the meso-Tetraphenylporphine Manganese(lll) chloride complex [CAS #32195-55-4; GFS item #2913]. If you don't see what you need in the organic Product Listings Guide that follows, please let us know. Contact development@gfschemicals.com.
Organics - Electro-optics, lonophores for Sensor Technology
