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Cathodically induced time-resolved lanthanide(III) electroluminescence at stationary aluminium disc electrodes

✍ Scribed by J. Kankare; K. Fäldén; S. Kulmala; K. Haapakka


Book ID
102981571
Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1992
Tongue
English
Weight
810 KB
Volume
256
Category
Article
ISSN
0003-2670

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✦ Synopsis


A time-resolved electrolummometer, which utilizes electrogenerated luminescence (EL) from disposable oxidecovered aluminium electrodes, is described in detail The cathodic polarization of this disc electrode in aqueous electrolytes induces a faint background EL with peak emission at 570 rim and with a lifetime of 6 µs This cell can be utilized to excite dysprosmm(III), samanum(III) and terbium(III) by electrochemical means to their lowest excited singlet states and, thus, to produce lanthanide(III)-specific emissions From the lanthanide(III) EL systems tested so far, a cathodically induced EL of 2,6-bis[N,N-bis(carboxymethyl)aminomethyl]-4benzoylphenol-chelated terbium(III) with a 2 1-ms lifetime is the longest lived and can be efficiently discriminated against the background EL on a time-resolved basis using instrumentally simple time-resolved detection, this time-resolved terbium(III) EL makes possible the determination of terbium(III) even below the picomole level in aqueous solutions