Molecular wires, inorganic

Supramolecular organic and inorganic photochemistry radical pair recombination in micelles, electron transfer on starburst dendrimers, and the use of DNA as a molecular wire [N. J. Turro, Pure Appl. Chem. 1995, 67(1), 199-208]. 

N. Kimizuka, Toward Self-Assembling Inorganic Molecular Wires , Adv. Mater., 12, 1461 (2000)... 

Early examples of molecular wires concentrated on the polymer materials as a backbone with a pendant inorganic functionality. For example, Meyer et al. produced a series of polystyrene-based polymers with pendant MLCT complexes of Ru and Os (Fig. 3) [19]. The photophysical analysis of this class of polymers demonstrated that energy and electron transfer between different pendant groups was controlled to a large extent by the distance between the groups. Furthermore, the distance was found to depend more on the stoichiometric loading of the metal dications than the inherent structure of the polymer [81]. Several groups prepared... 

B. Self-Assembling Inorganic Molecular Wires by Supramolecular Packaging... 

Molecular wires are indispensable elements of futme molecular-scale electronic devises, and their fabrication has been attracting much interest. Conventional research has been focused on the synthesis of tt-conjugated ohgomers and supramolecular polymers [56]. The introduction of inorganic elements or one-dimensional inorganic complexes in main chains would expand the potential of these nanomaterials and lead to new interfacial phenomena, which have not been observed in the single component system. However, one-dimensional complexes have not been considered candidates for molecular wires, since they exist only in three-dimensional solids. They are usually not soluble, and when they are dissolved, the one-dimensional structure is disrupted and the structure is not maintained. 

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