THE MEDICINAL IMPORTANCE OF LUMINESCENT AND FLUORESCENT ANALOGUES

The significant optical features of luminescent materials have drawn immense appreciation in all walks of life including organic dyes, metal-organic frameworks, lanthanide compounds, semiconductor-based quantum dots, and carbon-based nanodots, which attribute numerous applications to these Luminescent materials. Moreover, they have been proven important in various applications, including gas storage and separation, heterogeneous catalysis, light-harvesting, chemical sensing, bio-imaging, and drug delivery. In recent times, biologically important luminescent metal contain drugs have attracted great interest in bioinorganic chemistry.There is great potential in the application of these materials to cell bio-imaging. The most effective and useful tool for tracking the bio-distribution of luminescent compounds into the cell and cellular uptake of the species is cell bioimaging. A researcher has recently studied the cellular uptake which is monitored by CFM (Confocal Fluorescence Spectroscopy) of bioactive luminescent silver(I) diethylbarbiturate complexes, and these studies have demonstrated that this luminescent compound may develop potent anticancer agents in the future by suggesting that mitochondria and DNA are the potent biological targets for new drug discovery. This review will focus on a brief discussion on the various biological applications of luminescent and fluorescent metal-organic complexes, fluorescent heterocyclic compounds, nanomaterials, and luminescent inorganic molecules. This effort will help new researchers working in the field of luminescent and fluorescent-based medicinal chemistry development