Photochemistry and photophysics of coordination compounds: An extended view

✍ Scribed by Vincenzo Balzani; Alberto Credi; Margherita Venturi

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 876 KB
• Volume: 171
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0010-8545
• DOI: 10.1016/s0010-8545(98)90005-4

✦ Synopsis

Coordinalion che,mb;try is much more thou: the coo.'-'dina~,.h;~a of tra;~sifion-meu_d ~or~s b) orgaific o[I inorgm3ic ligands. I',s ~cop¢ extends to the binding of at] kinds of subs~rates (cationic, ~mionic. and neum~l molecuk:r spec,,esL ThereCore coordinado~ ci-.,emistr) merges into the big field of supramolecular c~emistr}, Coordinu'don compounds O.vith or withcu-~ meuJs} exhibit by definition a high 1eve! of org~miza~ion and d~erefl:'u'e ~.he: ure quite suitable to exploi~ the energy mid ird'ormalJo~ content of photons, h3 zi3i.~ paper v,e illustrate specific examples concermng d~e simi!arity between the pho;~cb.emical be>m,, ior of c~assica! coordina-tion3 compound,-. {i.e. metal complexes} and supramolecu1:~r species not contaimng metals. > ?