Immobilization of [Mn(bpy)(CO)3Br], (1) and [Mn(bpy((t)Bu)2)(CO)3Br] (2, where (bpy((t)Bu)2) = 4,4'-di-tert-butyl-2,2'-bipyridine) in Nafion/multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNT) on glassy carbon yielded highly active electrodes for the reduction of CO2 to CO in aqueous solutions at pH 7. Films incorporating have significantly improved selectivity towards CO2, with CO : H2 ∼ 1 at -1.4 V vs. SCE...

4,4'-Bis(dihexylaminocarbonyl)-2,2'-bipyridine (BDC-Bipy) was synthesized and studied systematically as a chelating reagent for metal ions extraction in supercritical CO(2). The compound showed high extraction efficiency for Co(2+) (100%), Cu(2+) (100%), Cd(2+) (98.2%), and Zn(2+) (100%) ions and good extraction efficiency for Sr(2+) (79.4%) and Pb(2+) (89.8%) when the extraction was performed ...

We synthesized the luminescent ruthenium(II) polypyridyl complexes of type [Ru(bpy)2(L1)][ClO4]2 (1) (where L1 = 4,4-dicarboxy-2,2-bipyridine); [Ru(bpy)2(L2)][ClO4]2 (2); and [Ru(L2)3][ClO4]2 (3) L2 4,4-dimethanol-2,2-bipyridine). Photo-physical electrochemical properties Ru(II) were investigated along with emission vs. pH. This reveals that carboxylic acids in 2,2-bipyridine ligand had a more ...

We report a combined spectro-photometric and computational investigation of the acid-base equilibria of the N3 solar cell sensitizer [Ru(dcbpyH(2))(2)(NCS)(2)] (dcbpyH(2) = 4,4'-dicarboxyl-2,2' bipyridine) in aqueous/ethanol solutions. The absorption spectra of N3 recorded at various pH values were analyzed by Single Value Decomposition techniques, followed by Global Fitting procedures, allowin...

The new lamellar phases [Zn(2,2'-bpy)(2)(H(2)O)(2)](ZrF(6))·3H(2)O (I) and [Ni(2,2'-bpy)(3)](MoO(2)F(4))·5H(2)O (II) (bpy = bipyridine), which are built from a chiral cation and respectively an inherently nonpolar and a polar anion, provide two contrasting structures with respect to chirality and polarity in the solid state. Each nonpolar layer of I contains enantiomers of both handednesses; co...

The outcome of reactions between D(2)O and size-selected ionic clusters of the type MH(+)(H(2)O)(n) (M = bipyridine, n = 1-30) shows that H-D-exchange is significantly higher for 2,2'-bipyridines than for 4,4'-bipyridines. This gives strong support for the idea that the existence of short water wires between the two nitrogen sites is essential to proton migration in water clusters containing ba...

The asymmetric unit of the title compound, C(10)H(8)N(2)·2C(8)H(8)O(3), contains two 2-meth-oxy-benzoic acid mol-ecules and one 4,4'-bipyridine mol-ecule. The 4,4'-bipyridine mol-ecule is disordered over two positions in a 1:1 ratio. In the crystal, the 2-meth-oxy-benzoic acid and 4,4'-bipyridine mol-ecules are connected by inter-molecular O-H⋯N hydrogen bonds. The dihedral angle between the ca...

Incorporating Co through the bipyridine coordination sites within CTF results in rapid charge-separation, thus improving photocatalytic water oxidation performance.

The anticancer properties of a series of mononuclear Re(IV) compounds of formula ReCl(4)L (where L is bpy = 2,2'-bipyridine; bpym = 2,2'-bipyrimidine; dmbpy = 4,4'-dimethyl-2,2'-bipyridine; phen = 1,10-phenanthroline) were investigated for the first time. All compounds displayed potent in vitro antiproliferative activity against selected cancer cells.

With the aim of improving the photoconversion efficiencies of heteroleptic [Cu(Lanchor)(Lancillary)](+) dyes in n-type dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs), the previously favoured anchor ((6,6'-dimethyl-[2,2'-bipyridine]-4,4'-diyl)bis(4,1-phenylene))bis(phosphonic acid) (1) has been replaced by analogues 2 and 3 containing 2-thienyl spacers between the 2,2'-bipyridine metal-binding domain and the...