The sensitized luminescence of europium ion in the complexes with pipemidin
ic acid is investigated. It was shown that in the result of intramolecular
energy transfer from ligand to: lanthanide ion the luminescence intensity o
f the latter increases by 10(10) times. The luminescence properties of the
complex were studied and the high sensitive luminescence method for the det
ermination of pipemidinic acid has been developed. (C) 1999 Elsevier Scienc
e B.V. All rights reserved.