The use of DNA networks as templates for forming nanoarrays of metallic centres shows an exciting potential to generate addressable nanostructures. Inorganic units can be photoactive, electroactive and/or can possess mag...
A series of C-2-symmetric, 10,11-disubstituted dibenzosuberane (DBS)-based helicenes 6a-c with a common 7-bromo-a-tetralin-based bottom fragment were synthesized. Their absolute stereochemistry was determined to be 10R,1...
Halide anions can increase or decrease the transmetallation rate of the Stille reaction through in situ halide metathesis. Although the influence of the halogen present in oxidative addition complexes on the transmetalla...
Double-stranded copper(II) string complexes of varying nuclearity, from di- to tetranuclear species, have been prepared by the Cu-II-mediated self-assembly of a novel family of linear homo- and heteropolytopic ligands th...
This work describes the synthesis and characterization of a new family of DNA amphiphiles containing modified nucleobases. The hydrophobicity was imparted by the introduction of a dodec-1-yne chain at the 5-position of t...
The cytostatic compounds cis-[Pt(A9pyp)(dmso)Cl-2] (1) and [Pt(A9pyp)(dmso)(cbdca)] (2) (A9pyp = (E)-[1-(9-anthryl)-3-(2-pyridyl)-2-propenone) as carrier ligand; cbdca = cyclobutane dicarboxylate) have been found to add ...
Three high-nuclearity mixed valence manganese(II/III) coordination clusters, have been synthesised, that is, [(Mn6Mn4II)-Mn-III(mu(3)-O)(4)(HL1)(6)(mu(3)-N-3)(3)(mu(3)-Br)(Br)](N-3 )(0.7)/(Br)(0.3)center dot 3MeCN center...
A detailed study of the synthesis and photophysical properties of a new series of dipolar organic photosensitizers that feature a 1,3-cyclohexadiene moiety integrated into the pi-conjugated structural backbone has been c...