Skip to main page content
U.S. flag

An official website of the United States government

Dot gov

The .gov means it’s official.
Federal government websites often end in .gov or .mil. Before sharing sensitive information, make sure you’re on a federal government site.

Https

The site is secure.
The https:// ensures that you are connecting to the official website and that any information you provide is encrypted and transmitted securely.

Access keys NCBI Homepage MyNCBI Homepage Main Content Main Navigation
Review
. 2023 Oct;66(12):372-383.
doi: 10.1002/jlcr.4056. Epub 2023 Aug 16.

Luminescence enhancement by deuterium

Crist N Filer  1
Affiliations
Review

Luminescence enhancement by deuterium

Crist N Filer. J Labelled Comp Radiopharm. 2023 Oct.

Abstract

Created literally at the dawn of time, deuterium has been extremely valuable in so many chemistry roles. The subject of this review focuses on one deuterium application in particular: its enhancement of luminescence in many substances. After providing general overviews of both deuterium and luminescence, the early exploration of deuterium's effect on luminescence is described, followed by a number of specific topics. These sections include a discussion of deuterium-influenced luminescence for dyes, proteins, singlet oxygen, and the lanthanide elements, as well as anomalous inverse deuterium luminescence effects. Future directions for this important research topic are also proposed, as well as a summary conclusion.

Keywords: chemiluminescence; deuterium; fluorescence; luminescence; phosphorescence.

PubMed Disclaimer

References

REFERENCES

    1. Hogan CJ. Primordial deuterium and the Big Bang. Sci Am. 1996;275(6):68-73. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1296-68
    1. Van de Voort F, Quataert E, Faucher-Giguere C-A, et al. On the deuterium abundance and the importance of stellar mass loss in the interstellar and intergalactic medium. Monthly Notices Royal Astronom Soc. 2018;477(1):80-92. doi:10.1093/mnras/sty591
    1. Brickwedde FG. Harold Urey and the discovery of deuterium. Phys Today. 1982;35(9):34-39. doi:10.1063/1.2915259
    1. Sattler M, Fesik SW. Use of deuterium labeling in NMR: overcoming a sizeable problem. Structure. 1996;4(11):1245-1249. doi:10.1016/S0969-2126(96)00133-5
    1. Ozohanics O, Ambrus A. Hydrogen-deuterium exchange mass spectrometry: a novel stuctural biology approach to structure, dynamics and interactions of proteins and their complexes. Life. 2020;10(11):286. doi:10.3390/life10110286

LinkOut - more resources