Electronic Conduction in Photoactive Metallo-wires

Carbon-Rich Compounds. Edited by Michael M. Haley and Rik R. Tykwinski Copyright 2006 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH Co. KGaA, Weinheim ISBN 3-527-31224-2 

Secondly, Gust and Moore and their coworkers [60] have successfully designed a 

In the following discussion we have chosen to describe the development of optoelectronic systems based on transition metal complexes [67-70). Whilst such systems differ from organic devices, most notably because triplet excited states dominate the photophysics, it has to be realized that this is a rather artificial distinction. The compounds to be described herein possess chelating units such as 

2 -bipyridine, 1,10-phenanthroline, benzimidazole, 2,2 6, 2 -terpyridine, ortho-metallated phenyl-bispyridine, or ortho-metallated 6-phenyl-bipyridine fragments. 

The synthetic strategies and procedures employed for the engineering of such systems can be classified generally as  

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