Ligand (biochemistry)

Physics

Receptor

Organic chemistry

Square pyramid

Mathematics

Crystallography

Optics

Pyramid (geometry)

Square (algebra)

Luminescence

Atomic physics

Chemistry

Geometry

Square pyramidal molecular geometry

Biochemistry

Dalton Transactions

The luminescence of Mn2+ ion in a square-pyramidal (<italic>C</italic>4v) ligand field was discovered. The molecular complexes with such coordination geometry exhibit red emission with enhanced Stokes shift and millisecond lifetimes.

Luminescence of the Mn2+ ion in non-Oh and Td coordination environments: the missing case of square pyramid