“…So far, only a few studies have investigated the luminescence properties of Eu 3+ and Tb 3+ coordination compounds with CAPh ligands. These studies include investigations on the luminescence of compounds with general compositions of Cat[LnL 4 ]·xH 2 O ( Amirkhanov et al, 1996 ; Sokolnicki et al, 1999 ; Tang et al, 2014 ; Kariaka et al, 2016a ; Kariaka et al, 2017 ; Kariaka et al, 2018 ; Kariaka et al, 2022 ), [LnCl 3 (HL) 3 ] and [Ln(NO 3 ) 3 (HL) 3 ] ( Legendziewicz et al, 2000 ; Legendziewicz et al, 2001 ; Znovyak et al, 2009 ; Kariaka et al, 2016b ), [LnL 3 Q] (Q = H 2 O, 2-propanol, 2,2-bipyridine, 1,10-phenanthroline, TPPO, 2-(1,3,4-oxadiazole-2-yl) pyridine) ( Legendziewicz et al, 2001 ; Borzechowska et al, 2002 ; Oczko et al, 2003 ; Puchalska et al, 2008 ; Znovyak et al, 2009 ; Kariaka et al, 2014 ; Tang et al, 2014 ; Litsis et al, 2015 ; Kariaka et al, 2016b ; Kariaka et al, 2016c ; Nakajima et al, 2016 ; Yakovlev et al, 2018 ; Kariaka et al, 2020 ), [Na 2 LnL 4 (OTf)(DMF)] ( Pham et al, 2020 ), Ln 5 L 10 (OH) 5 ( Kariaka et al, 2016d ), binuclear Ln 2 L 3 phen 2 ( Horniichuk et al, 2021 ), and [Eu 2 (L) 2 (μ-Ph 2 POO) 2 (κ-OP(O)Ph 2 ) 2 (CH 3 OH) 2 ] ( Pham et al, 2017 ). Some of these studies have also measured the luminescence decay lifetimes and emission quantum yields (overall and intrinsic), as shown in Table 4 .…”