title: Photofunctional multinuclear rhenium(i) diimine carbonyl complexes.
abstract: This account looks comprehensively at the syntheses, photophysical properties and applications of structurally diverse, multinuclear coordination compounds that embed a Re(i)-diimine-carbonyl moiety. Different types of linkages in terms of configuration and proper bridging lead to several types of discrete linear or cyclic macromolecular aggregates with different sizes, which consequently have a significant effect on their properties. The Re-backbone in the multinuclear assembly may have only a structural role and mainly exhibits host-guest behaviour for encapsulation, or it may produce photofunctional properties as a direct result of the Re(i) chromophoric unit, which makes these compounds applicable in light-harvesting systems or photochemical CO2reduction. In particular, we would like to emphasize bisphosphine-bridged multinuclear complexes that exhibit outstanding photophysical properties.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2-12-1-NE-1 O-okayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, 152-8550, Japan. ishitani@chem.titech.ac.jp.
authors.forename: Jana
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Rohacova
authors.forename: Osamu
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Ishitani