We report the synthesis and the photophysical properties of UV light-harvesting arrays constructed around a [Ru(bpy)3] core (bpy ) 2,2′-bipyridine) bearing one and three pyrenyl units in the periphery. The free ligand containing the pyrenyl unit, 4-methyl-4′-(2-hydroxyethylpyrenyl)-2,2′-bipyridine, displays an intense emission band centered near 400 nm with a lifetime of 264 ns, characteristic ...

The title compound, [Cu(C(8)H(7)O(2))(C(10)H(8)N(2))(2)]I·0.5H(2)O, was obtained by the hydro-thermal reaction of copper(I) iodide, 4-methyl-benzoic acid and 2,2'-bipyridine. The initial reactant of Cu(I) was oxidized to Cu(II). The asymmetric unit contains two independent complex mol-ecules, two I(-) ions and one water molecule. Each Cu(II) atom is coordinated by two O atoms from a 4-methyl-be...

Following previous work on complexes of the anions (1R,3S)-(+)-camphoric acid (H2cam) with uranyl cation, three novel species have been synthesized under solvo-hydrothermal conditions. [UO2(Hcam)2(4,4?-bipy)] (1), where 4,4?-bipy is 4,4?-bipyridine, crystallizes as a monoperiodic polymer bridging molecules and chelating, terminal Hcam– anions, hydrogen bonding between carboxylic carboxylate gro...

The molar absorptivity curves of the mono and bis nickel(II) complexes of 2,2'-bipyridine and 1,10-phenanthroline have been deduced from the composite absorbance data of a series of equilibrium solutions in methanol using equilibrium-restricted factor analysis, a technique for extracting spectral and thermodynamic information for component species involved in solution equilibria. The solutions ...

The catalytic activity of [Ru(tpy)(bpy)OH(2)](2+) (tpy = 2,2':6',2''-terpyridine and bpy = 2,2'-bipyridine) increased by a 4'-substituted ethoxy group on the tpy ligand by more than one order of magnitude to give 1.1 × 10(-1) s(-1) of catalyst turnover frequency, which is comparable with the hitherto-reported champion data.

This report describes the dimerisation of glutathione, and by extension, other cysteine-containing peptides or protein fragments, with a 5, 5'-disubstituted-2, 2'-bipyridine or 6, 6"-disubstituted-2, 2':6',2"-terpyridine unit. The resulting bipy-GS2 and terpy-GS2 were investigated as potential metal ion dependent switches in aqueous solution, and were found to predominantly adopt the transoïd c...

Four new 2,2'-bipyridine and 1,10-phenanthroline complexes, namely [Mn(phenca)(2)]·(H(2)O)(2) (1), [Cu(4)(phen)(4)(OH-)(4)(H(2)O)(2)](DMF)(4)(ClO(4)-)(4)(H(2)O) (2), [Cu(2)(2,2-bipy)(2)(C(2)O(4)2-)(H(2)O)(2)(NO(3))(2)] (3) and [Cu(2,2-bipy)(2)(ClO(4)-)](ClO(4)-) (4) (2,2'-bpy = 2,2'-bipyridine, Hphenca = 1,10-phenanthroline-2-carboxylic acid) have been synthesized by a hydrothermal reaction. Th...

The asymmetric unit of the title compound, C(10)H(8)N(2)·C(8)H(6)O(4), consists of one half-mol-ecule of each moiety, 4,4'-bipyridine (bpy) and terephthalic acid (bdc), both being located on crystallographic inversion centers. They are linked together via strong inter-molecular O-H⋯N hydrogen bonds, forming infinite chains propagating along [1-21]. The chains are further connected through C-H⋯O...