US Patent Issued to The University of Hong Kong on Oct. 6 for "Colour tunable luminescent bidentate platinum (II) complexes for probing mismatch DNA" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,753,197, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to The University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong).

"Colour tunable luminescent bidentate platinum (II) complexes for probing mismatch DNA" was invented by Chi Ming Che (Hong Kong), Ming Zhang (Hainan, China) and Chun Nam Lok (Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Pertains to the design and applications of platinum (II) compounds supported by a bidentate and N-heterocyclic carbene ligands. The Pt (II) complexes exhibit strong emission intensity differences when contacted with matched and mismatched DNA. In addition, the Pt (II) complexes show a color tunable effect when exposed to mismatched compared to ...