In recent years, we have manifested a continuing interest in the factors controlling structure and reactivity of the fertile landscape of organoaluminium carboxylate compounds. A particularly fruitful family constitutes dialkylaluminium complexes of simple carboxylic acids and easy-to-prepare derivatives of phthalic acid in which one of the two acid groups has been converted to an amino (Figure ) or other functionality. These complexes primarily exhibit tetranuclear aggregation, [(Me2Al)2((µ-O2C)C6H4-2-µ-X)]2 (X = CO2 -, NH -or O -, respectively), though when the aluminium is sterically hindered, simpler dinuclear aggregates have been reported (Figure ). It is also noteworthy that a large number of transition, post-transition and rare earth metal complexes derived from quite common aminobenzoic acids have been reported, with a focus on their luminescence properties as driven by their central metal ions. Strikingly, to our knowledge, anthranilates based on non-redox active metal centres have not yet been reported as effective luminophores. Since the use of (N,N)-and (N,O)-type chelating ligands appears to be beneficial in terms of luminescence properties, we became curious as to whether simple anthranilates could be developed as a ligand of choice in this matter. Herein, we present a series of novel alkylaluminium derivatives of Nsubstituted anthranilic acids, where a unique combination of factors controlling their structure in the solid-state triggers unprecedented luminescent performance of up to unity.