Luminescent complexes associated with isonicotinic acid

Abstract Luminescent complexes illustrate high interest as luminescent materials in the fields of optical communications, lighting, sensors and biomedical devices. This review gives the structural and luminescent studies on isonicotinic acid based complexes, and probably provides the structure-property relationship. These complexes display various luminescent properties, such as luminescent probe, different luminescence when immersed in different organic solvents. This review is divided into three sections to discuss, including transition-metal, lanthanide, lanthanide-transition heterometal. The approach will help design and synthesis of luminescent complexes as promising materials.