Improving the performance of labeling agents is crucial to the further development of electrochemiluminescence (ECL) related technologies. Although a large number of ECL luminophores beyond ruthenium complexes have been reported so far, there is still a scarcity of studies involving novel ECL labeling agents. Herein, five novel iridium ECL labels and one control label comprising a ruthenium complex have been rationally designed and thoroughly characterized using photophysical techniques, theoretical calculations and electrochemical characterization to assess the ECL properties in this work. Both in coreactant-assisted potential scan experiments and through an annihilation approach, most of these novel iridium labels exhibit equivalent or even-stronger ECL signals than tri-2,2'-bipyridylruthenium(ii) [abbreviated as Ru(bpy)] under the same experimental conditions. Most importantly, using the same labeling protocol, bovine serum albumin (BSA) labeled with an iridium label (label 3 in this work) exhibits a much more intense ECL signal (1.9 times) than the same amount labeled with a traditional ruthenium complex (Ru-based Label in this work) in ProCell buffer solution. In addition to the advantage of exhibiting various emission colors, the novel iridium labels reported in this work may offer insight for the further development of ECL-based analytical technology.
A novel iridium(III) complex with carboxylic group (Bis[6‐(benzo[b]thiophen‐2‐yl)phenanthridine‐C3,N](4‐methyl‐4′‐carboxypropyl‐2,2′‐bipyridine)iridium(III)chloride, named Ir–COOH in this work) is investigated for the first time as a sensitizer in triplet‐triplet annihilation (TTA) upconversion studies. Without the aid of bulky incorporated light‐harvesting groups, this simple iridium(III) sensitizer has moderate absorbance in visible light regions (ϵ=7750 M−1cm−1 at 532 nm, ϵ is molar extinction coefficient). Under the assistant of 9,10‐diphenylanthracene (DPA) as a triplet acceptor, green to blue upconversion from Ir–COOH/DPA system is obviously visible under the naked eyes and the upconversion efficiency is 9.5 % in deaerated DMF.
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