55.

Colorimetric and Ratiometric Fluorescent Chemosensor Based on Diketopyrrolopyrrole (DPP) for Selective Detection of Thiols: An Experimental and Theoretical Study.

Ling Deng, Wenting Wu, Huimin Guo, Jianzhang Zhao,* Shaomin Ji, Xin Zhang, Xiaolin Yuan, and Chunlei Zhang.

J. Org. Chem., 2011, 76, 9294-9304.

54.

Long-Lived Room Temperature Deep-Red/Near-IR Emissive Intraligand Triplet Excited State (3IL) of Naphthalimide in Cyclometalated Pt(II) Complexes and Its Application in Upconversion.

Wenting Wu, Huimin Guo, Wanhua Wu, Shaomin Ji, and Jianzhang Zhao.*

Inorg. Chem., 2011, 50, 11446-11460.

53.

Ratiometric luminescent molecular oxygen sensors based on uni-luminophores of C^N Pt(II)(acac) complexes that show intense visible-light absorption and balanced fluorescence/phosphorescence dual emission.

Yifan Liu, Huimin Guo and Jianzhang Zhao.*

Chem. Commun., 2011, 47, 11471–11473.

52.

Triplet–triplet annihilation based upconversion: from triplet sensitizers and triplet acceptors to upconversion quantum yields.

Jianzhang Zhao,* Shaomin Ji and Huimin Guo.

RSC Adv., 2011, 1, 937–950. Review.

51.

Tuning the Emissive Triplet Excited States of Platinum(II) Schiff base Complexes with Pyrene, and Application for Luminescent Oxygen Sensing and Triplet–triplet-annihilation Based Upconversions.

Wanhua Wu, Jifu Sun, Shaomin Ji, Wenting Wu, Jianzhang Zhao* and Huimin Guo*

Dalton Trans., 2011, 40, 11550–11561.

50.

Room Temperature Long-lived 3IL Excited State of Rhodamine in a N^N Pt(II) Bisacetylide Complex Which Shows Intense Visible Light Absorption.

Ling Huang, Le Zeng, Huimin Guo, Wanhua Wu, Wenting Wu, Shaomin Ji and Jianzhang Zhao*

Eur. J. Inorg. Chem., 2011, 4527–4533.

49.

Organic Triplet Sensitizer Library Derived froma Single Chromophore (BODIPY) with Long-Lived Triplet Excited State for Triplet-Triplet Annihilation Based Upconversion.

Wanhua Wu, Huimin Guo, Wenting Wu, Shaomin Ji, and Jianzhang Zhao*

J. Org. Chem., 2011, 76 (17), 7056–7064.

48.

Thiophene Inserted Aryl Dicyanovinyls: The Second Generation of Fluorescent Molecular Rotors with Substantially Red-shifted Emission and Large Stokes Shift.

Jingyin Shao, Shaomin Ji, Xiaolian Li, Jianzhang Zhao,* Fuke Zhou and Huimin Guo.*

Eur. J. Org. Chem., 2011, 39, 6100-6109.

47.

Ruthenium(II) Polyimine-Coumarin Dyad with Non-emissive 3IL Excited State as Sensitizer for Triplet-Triplet-Annihilation Based Upconversion.

Shaomin Ji, Huimin Guo, Wenting Wu, Wanhua Wu, Jianzhang Zhao.*

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2011, 50, 8283-8286

46.

Visible-light Harvesting Cyclometalated Iridium (III) Complexes with Long-lived 3IL Excited States and Their Application for Triplet-triplet-annihilation Based Upconversions.

Jifu Sun, Wanhua Wu, Huimin Guo and Jianzhang Zhao.*

Eur. J. Inorg. Chem., 2011, 3165–3173. (cover paper)

Highlighted by www.physorg.com* and esciencenewds.com ** Learning from plants: visible light energy harvesting. June 23, 2011 . How do they do it? Plants make use of only the energy of sunlight for their requirements. Many researchers are trying to mimic the process to harness the vast energy of the sun. In the article published recently in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.,[1] Jianzhang Zhao et al. of the Dalian University of Technology (China) showed that long-lived triplet excited states are tremendously important for applications in light harvesting. Now they report in the European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry significantly long room-temperature triplet excited state lifetimes for cyclometallated, coumarin-containing IrIII complexes with strong absorption in the visible range........ For detail, please refer to http://www.phyorg.com/news/2011-06-visible-energy-harvesting.html andhttp://esciencenews.com/sources/physorg/2011/06/23/learning.plants.visible.light.energy.harvesting *The PhysOrg.com? staff mission statement is to provide the most complete and comprehensive daily coverage of the full sweep of science, technology, and medicine news. Quancast 2009 includes PhysOrg in its list of the Global Top 2,000 Websites. **There is no human editor behind e! Science News; it is powered by the e! news engine, a fully automated artificial intelligence. Its sole purpose is to ensure that you have access to the very latest and popular science breakthroughs. To achieve this, it constantly surfs the web to gather, regroup, categorize, tag and rank science news from all major science news sources....

45.

Enantioselective Recognition of Mandelic Acid by a 3,6-Dithiophen-2-yl-9H-carbazole Based Chiral Fluorescent Bisboronic Acid Sensor.

Yubo Wu, Huimin Guo, Tony D. James and Jianzhang Zhao.*

J. Org. Chem., 2011, 5685-5695.

44.

Ruthenium(II) Polyimine Complexes with a Long-Lived 3IL Excited State or a 3MLCT/3IL Equilibrium: Efficient Triplet Sensitizers for Low-Power Upconversion.

Shaomin Ji, Wanhua Wu, Wenting Wu, Huimin Guo, Jianzhang Zhao.*

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2011, 50, 1626-1629.

Highlighted by Nature China, 2011, doi:10. 1038/nchina.2011.4 Photochemistry: Long live the excited state. By Anne Pichon. Ruthenium polyimine complexes have a long-lived excited state, making them ideal sensitizers for solar cells. http://www.nature.com/nchina/2011/110202/full/nchina.2011. 4. html Highlighted by Chem. Eur. J. By Paola Ceroni, Chem. Eur. J., 2011, 17, 9560 – 9564. (Minireview). Energy Up-Conversion by Low-Power Excitation: New Applications of an Old Concept. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10. 1002/chem.201101102/abstract

43.

Chiral Donor Photoinduced-Electron-Transfer (d-PET) Boronic Acid Chemosensors for the Selective Recognition of Tartaric Acids, Disaccharides, and Ginsenosides.

Yubo Wu, Huimin Guo, Xin Zhang, Tony D. James, and Jianzhang Zhao.*

Chem. Eur. J., 2011,7632–7644.

42.

Styryl-BODIPY based red-emitting fluorescent OFF–ON molecular probe for specific detection of cysteine.

Jingyin Shao, Huimin Guo, Shaomin Ji, Jianzhang Zhao.*

Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 2011, 26, 3012-3017

41.

Enhanced Enantioselective Recognition with Diastereoisomeric BINOL Based Chiral Fluorescent Boronic Acid Sensors.

Qiuting Li, Huimin Guo,* Yubo Wu, Xin Zhang, Yifan Liu, Jianzhang Zhao.*

J Fluoresc., 2011, 21, 2077–2084

40.

EnantioselectiveEnantioselective Recognition of Tartaric Acids with Ethynylated Carbazole-Based Chiral Bisboronic Acid Chemosensors with Improved Response at Acidic pH.

Yifan Liu, Xin Zhang, Huimin Guo, Yubo Wu, Qiuting Li, Liping Liu, Jianzhang Zhao.*

J Fluoresc., 2011, 21, 1979–1986.

39.

Synthesis of Ethynylated Phenothiazine Based Fluorescent Boronic Acid Probes.

Yubo Wu, Huimin Guo,* Jingyin Shao, Xin Zhang, Shaomin Ji, Jianzhang Zhao.*

J Fluoresc., 2011, 1143–1154.

38.

Highly selective fluorescent OFF–ON thiol probes based on dyads of BODIPY and potent intramolecular electron sink 2,4- dinitrobenzenesulfonyl Subunits.

Huimin Guo,* Yingying Jing, Xiaolin Yuan, Shaomin Ji, Jianzhang Zhao,* Xiaohuan Li and Yanyan Kan.

Org. Biomol. Chem., 2011, 9, 3844–3853.

37.

Molecular Rotors as Fluorescent Viscosity Sensors: Molecular Design, Polarity Sensitivity, Dipole Moments Changes, Screening Solvents and Deactivation Channel of the Excited States.

Fuke Zhou, Jingyin Shao, Yubin Yang, Jianzhang, Zhao,* Huimin Guo,* Xiaolian Li,* Shaomin Ji, and Zongying Zhang. Eur. J. Org. Chem., 2011, 4773–4787.

36.

Accessing the long-lived emissive 3IL triplet excited states of coumarin fluorophores by direct cyclometallation and its application for oxygen sensing and upconversion.

Wenting Wu, Wanhua Wu, Shaomin Ji, Huimin Guo and Jianzhang Zhao*

Dalton Trans., 2011, 40, 5953–5963.

35.

Accessing the long-lived near-IR-emissive triplet excited state in naphthalenediimide with light-harvesting diimine platinum(II) bisacetylide complex and its application for upconversion.

Yifan Liu, Wanhua Wu, Jianzhang Zhao,* Xin Zhang and Huimin Guo*

Dalton Trans., 2011, 40, 9085-9089.

34.

Coumarin phosphorescence observed with N^N Pt(II) bisacetylide complex and its applications for luminescent oxygen sensing and triplettriplet- annihilation based upconversion.

Haiyang Sun, Huimin Guo,* Wenting Wu, Xin Liu, Jianzhang Zhao*

Dalton Trans., 2011, 40, 7834-7841. (Inside Front Cover Paper).

(Hot article): http://blogs.rsc.org/dt/2011/06/14/hot-article-coumarin-phosphorescence-for-luminescent- oxygen-sensing/

33.

Tuning the emission property of carbazole-caped cyclometalated platinum(II) complexes and its application for enhanced luminescent oxygen sensing.

Wanhua Wu, Wenting Wu, Shaomin Ji, Huimin Guo, Jianzhang Zhao*

Journal of Organometallic Chemistry., 2011, 696, 2388–2398.

32.

Synthesis of 5,10,15,20-tetraarylporphyrins and Their Platinum(II) Complexes as Luminescent Oxygen Sensing Materials.

Wenting Wu, Wanhua Wu, Shaomin Ji, Huimin Guo, Xin Wang and Jianzhang Zhao.*

Dyes and Pigments, 2011, 89, 199-211