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- A shift is occurring in photophysics and photochemistry, moving focus from expensive rare elements to more affordable and abundant first-row transition metals.
- Recent advancements have uncovered that a wider variety of metals, including V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, and Cu, can be used to create emissive complexes with unique photoluminescence properties.
- The research highlights new design strategies that have led to the development of innovative 3d-metal-based luminophores and photosensitizers effective at room temperature in solution.
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Precious and rare elements have traditionally dominated inorganic photophysics and photochemistry, but now we are witnessing a paradigm shift toward cheaper and more abundant metals. Even though emissive complexes based on selected first-row transition metals have long been known, recent conceptual breakthroughs revealed that a much broader range of elements in different oxidation states are useable for this purpose. Coordination compounds of V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, and Cu now show electronically excited states with unexpected reactivity and photoluminescence behavior. Aside from providing a compact survey of the recent conceptual key advances in this dynamic field, our Perspective identifies the main design strategies that enabled the discovery of fundamentally new types of 3d-metal-based luminophores and photosensitizers operating in solution at room temperature.
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