Abstract: New luminescent dye including a metallocomplex of an oxoporphyrin having the general formula: ##STR1## wherein R1 to R8 are radicals belonging to the group: H, lower alkyl with number of C.ltoreq.6 or CH.sub.2 --CH.sub.2 --COO--R.sub.9, with R.sub.9 =H or alkyl with number of C.ltoreq.18 and M=Pt.sup.2+ or Pd.sup.2+.