Highly luminescent, biocompatible ytterbium(iii) complexes as near-infrared fluorophores for living cell imaging
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We report three synthetic methods to prepare biocompatible Yb3+complexes, which displayed high NIR luminescence with quantum yields up to 13% in aqueous media. This renders β-fluorinated Yb3+porphyrinoids a new class of NIR probes for living cell imaging including time-resolved fluorescence lifetime imaging.