In the title centrosymmetric dinuclear dioxidovanadium(V) complex, [V(2)(C(13)H(19)N(2)O(3))(2)O(4)], the V(V) ion is coordinated by an N,N',O-tridendate 2-eth-oxy-6-{[2-(2-hy-droxy-ethyl-amino)-ethyl-imino]-meth-yl}phenolate ligand and three oxide O atoms, forming a distorted cis-VN(2)O(4) octa-hedral geometry. The bridging O atoms show one short and one long bond to their two attached V(V) at...

A series of mono- and dinuclear alkynylplatinum(II) terpyridine complexes containing the hydrophilic oligo(para-phenylene ethynylene) with two 3,6,9-trioxadec-1-yloxy chains was designed and synthesized. The mononuclear alkynylplatinum(II) terpyridine complex was found to display a very strong tendency toward the formation of supramolecular structures. Interestingly, additional end-capping with...

The reaction of Cu(ClO(4))·6H(2)O, Cu turnings, and 3,6-bis(2-pyridyl)-1,2,4,5-tetrazine (bptz) in Me(2)CO under C(2)H(4) afforded brownish-red needle crystals of {[Cu(2)(bptz˙(-))(C(2)H(4))(2)](ClO(4))}(2) (1) as a minor product and brown plate crystals of [Cu(2)(2,5-H(2)bptz)(C(2)H(4))(2)](ClO(4))(2)·2Me(2)CO (2). The X-ray crystallographic study showed that complex 1 is composed of two indep...

The flexible and larger ring size macrocycle 4 (C(36)H(46)N(6)Se(2)) afforded stable complex 5 [Hg(2)(PF(6))(2)[C(36)H(46)N(6)Se(2)]] on treatment with 1 equiv of mercuric acetate followed by addition of NH(4)PF(6). The reaction of Pb(OCOCH(3))(2).4H(2)O with 4 followed by treatment with NH(4)PF(6) resulted in a dinuclear lead complex (6) [Pb(2)(PF(6))(2)(OCOCH(3))(2)[C(36)H(46)N(6)Se(2)]]. The...

A novel molecular dyad, 1, made of a dinuclear {[Re2(μ-X)2(CO)6(μ-pyridazine)]} component covalently-linked to a fullerene unit by a carbocyclic molecular bridge has been prepared and its redox, spectroscopic, and photophysical properties - including pump-probe transient absorption spectroscopy in the visible and near-infrared region - have been investigated, along with those of its model speci...

Electron transfer and delocalization of the pi systems were investigated in mono- and dinuclear Ru complexes with the zwitterionic ligand L = N,N'-diisopropyl-2-amino-5-alcoholate-1,4-benzoquinonemonoiminium.

Herein we demonstrated that dinuclear zinc complexes could overcome drug resistance in R-HepG2 drug resistance hepatocellular carcinoma cells through induction of mitochondria-mediated apoptosis or by triggering mitochondria fragmentation, depletion of the membrane potential and intracellular ATP levels.

We have demonstrated that mononuclear Zn(II)-dipicolylamine (DPA) complexes with an auxiliary ligand can fluorescently discriminate pyrophosphate over ATP with as high selectivity as the known fast responding dinuclear bis(ZnDPA) complexes.

An unusual dinuclear chiral iron complex has been synthesized and effectively utilized in the asymmetric hydrophosphorylation of aldehydes to synthesize optically active α-hydroxy phosphonates with excellent yield and good enantioselectivity.

A new triple-decker dinuclear sandwich-type dysprosium complex based on both the phthalocyanine ligand and the tetradentate Schiff base ligand was synthesized, which is of interest for synthetic chemistry and also shows single-molecule magnetic behaviour.