The pyridine-containing ligands and react with Ni(2+) ions to afford dinuclear triple-stranded helicate and tetrahedral cage supramolecular complexes, respectively; the two architectures exhibit contrasting reactivity towards electro- and photocatalytic proton reduction.

A novel dinuclear complex containing the photo-sensitizing Ru unit and a Pd center is effective toward selective catalytic dimerization of alpha-methylstyrene leading to 2,4-diphenyl-4-methyl-1-pentene under visible-light irradiated conditions.

Molecular modelling has identified a new RNA conformational feature created by the insertion of bulge residues into duplex regions that may act as a recognition site for small molecule binding, in particular for inert dinuclear ruthenium complexes.

Dinuclear clathrochelate complexes are easily accessible by reaction of zinc(ii) triflate or cobalt(ii) nitrate with arylboronic acids and phenoldioximes. The utilization of brominated arylboronic acids and/or brominated phenoldioximes allows preparing clathrochelates with two, three, five or seven bromine atoms on the outside. These clathrochelates can undergo Pd-catalyzed cross-coupling react...

In the title centrosymmetric dinuclear dioxidovanadium(V) complex, [V(2)(C(13)H(19)N(2)O(3))(2)O(4)], the V(V) ion is coordinated by an N,N',O-tridendate 2-eth-oxy-6-{[2-(2-hy-droxy-ethyl-amino)-ethyl-imino]-meth-yl}phenolate ligand and three oxide O atoms, forming a distorted cis-VN(2)O(4) octa-hedral geometry. The bridging O atoms show one short and one long bond to their two attached V(V) at...

A series of mono- and dinuclear alkynylplatinum(II) terpyridine complexes containing the hydrophilic oligo(para-phenylene ethynylene) with two 3,6,9-trioxadec-1-yloxy chains was designed and synthesized. The mononuclear alkynylplatinum(II) terpyridine complex was found to display a very strong tendency toward the formation of supramolecular structures. Interestingly, additional end-capping with...

The reaction of Cu(ClO(4))·6H(2)O, Cu turnings, and 3,6-bis(2-pyridyl)-1,2,4,5-tetrazine (bptz) in Me(2)CO under C(2)H(4) afforded brownish-red needle crystals of {[Cu(2)(bptz˙(-))(C(2)H(4))(2)](ClO(4))}(2) (1) as a minor product and brown plate crystals of [Cu(2)(2,5-H(2)bptz)(C(2)H(4))(2)](ClO(4))(2)·2Me(2)CO (2). The X-ray crystallographic study showed that complex 1 is composed of two indep...

The flexible and larger ring size macrocycle 4 (C(36)H(46)N(6)Se(2)) afforded stable complex 5 [Hg(2)(PF(6))(2)[C(36)H(46)N(6)Se(2)]] on treatment with 1 equiv of mercuric acetate followed by addition of NH(4)PF(6). The reaction of Pb(OCOCH(3))(2).4H(2)O with 4 followed by treatment with NH(4)PF(6) resulted in a dinuclear lead complex (6) [Pb(2)(PF(6))(2)(OCOCH(3))(2)[C(36)H(46)N(6)Se(2)]]. The...

A novel molecular dyad, 1, made of a dinuclear {[Re2(μ-X)2(CO)6(μ-pyridazine)]} component covalently-linked to a fullerene unit by a carbocyclic molecular bridge has been prepared and its redox, spectroscopic, and photophysical properties - including pump-probe transient absorption spectroscopy in the visible and near-infrared region - have been investigated, along with those of its model speci...

Electron transfer and delocalization of the pi systems were investigated in mono- and dinuclear Ru complexes with the zwitterionic ligand L = N,N'-diisopropyl-2-amino-5-alcoholate-1,4-benzoquinonemonoiminium.