“…Compared to that of copper(I) and gold(I) complexes, the development of luminescent silver(I) complexes has started only recently; however, several silver complexes exhibiting strong luminescence at room temperature, − thermally activated delayed fluorescence, − thermochromic luminescence, − and stimuli-responsive luminescence , have already been reported. Because the coordination properties and electronic structures of silver(I) complexes are similar to those of copper(I) complexes, the ligands affording luminescent copper(I) complexes have also been exploited to synthesize luminescent silver(I) complexes. ,− The obtained complexes typically display emission in the near-ultraviolet (UV) or blue region even though the corresponding copper(I) complexes show colorful emission in the visible region. ,− Because the stability of the 4d orbitals of the silver(I) center is higher than that of the 3d orbitals of the copper(I) center, ,− the metal-to-ligand CT ES increases in energy, approaching those of the other ESs, which causes a mixing of the ESs and complicates their emissive ESs, hampering the rational design of a ligand set for luminescent silver(I) complexes.…”