Recent progress in tuning charge transport in single-molecule junctions by substituents

Fei Chen, Qing-Man Liang, Long-Xing Lin, Qian-Chong Zhang and Yang Yang

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2023, 11, 14515
DOI: 10.1039/D3TC02035E

Organometallics in molecular junctions: conductance, functions, and reactions

Yuya Tanaka

Dalton Trans., 2024, 53, 8512
DOI: 10.1039/D4DT00668B

Electronic communication in phosphine substituted bridged dirhenium complexes – clarifying ambiguities raised by the redox non-innocence of the C4H2- and C4-bridges

Yan Li, Olivier Blacque, Thomas Fox, Sandra Luber, Walther Polit, Rainer F. Winter, Koushik Venkatesan and Heinz Berke

Dalton Trans., 2016, 45, 5783
DOI: 10.1039/C5DT04768D

Redox-driven porphyrin based systems for new luminescent molecular switches

Lucie Norel, Clarisse Tourbillon, Julien Warnan, Jean-Frédéric Audibert, Yann Pellegrin, Fabien Miomandre, Fabrice Odobel and Stéphane Rigaut

Dalton Trans., 2018, 47, 8364
DOI: 10.1039/C8DT01493K

Evidence for a hopping mechanism in metal|single molecule|metal junctions involving conjugated metal–terpyridyl complexes; potential-dependent conductances of complexes [M(pyterpy)2]2+ (M = Co and Fe; pyterpy = 4′-(pyridin-4-yl)-2,2′:6′,2′′-terpyridine) in ionic liquid

Sarah Chappell, Carly Brooke, Richard J. Nichols, Laurence J. Kershaw Cook, Malcolm Halcrow, Jens Ulstrup and Simon J. Higgins

Faraday Discuss., 2016, 193, 113
DOI: 10.1039/C6FD00080K

Molecular rectifiers based on five-coordinate iron(iii)-containing surfactants

Cláudio N. Verani

Dalton Trans., 2018, 47, 14153
DOI: 10.1039/C8DT02891E

New routes to organometallic molecular junctionsviaa simple thermal processing protocol

Ruben Ezquerra, Samantha G. Eaves, Sören Bock, Brian W. Skelton, Francesc Pérez-Murano, Pilar Cea, Santiago Martín and Paul J. Low

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2019, 7, 6630
DOI: 10.1039/C9TC01305A

Mix and (Mis)match: further studies of the electronic structure and mixed-valence characteristics of 1,4-diethynylbenzene-bridged bimetallic complexes

Parvin Safari, Stephen A. Moggach and Paul J. Low

Dalton Trans., 2020, 49, 9835
DOI: 10.1039/D0DT01794A

Push–pull D–π-Ru–π-A chromophores: synthesis and electrochemical, photophysical and second-order nonlinear optical properties

Raphaël J. Durand, Sébastien Gauthier, Sylvain Achelle, Thomas Groizard, Samia Kahlal, Jean-Yves Saillard, Alberto Barsella, Nicolas Le Poul and Françoise Robin Le Guen

Dalton Trans., 2018, 47, 3965
DOI: 10.1039/C8DT00093J

Single-molecule electronics: from chemical design to functional devices

Lanlan Sun, Yuri A. Diaz-Fernandez, Tina A. Gschneidtner, Fredrik Westerlund, Samuel Lara-Avila and Kasper Moth-Poulsen

Chem. Soc. Rev., 2014, 43, 7378
DOI: 10.1039/C4CS00143E

Insulated molecular wires: inhibiting orthogonal contacts in metal complex based molecular junctions

Oday A. Al-Owaedi, Sören Bock, David C. Milan, Marie-Christine Oerthel, Michael S. Inkpen, Dmitry S. Yufit, Alexandre N. Sobolev, Nicholas J. Long, Tim Albrecht, Simon J. Higgins, Martin R. Bryce, Richard J. Nichols, Colin J. Lambert and Paul J. Low

Nanoscale, 2017, 9, 9902
DOI: 10.1039/C7NR01829K

Multifunctional switching properties of “wire-like” dinuclear ruthenium bis-alkynyl spiropyran complexes

David Jago, Amelia R. Langley, Samantha G. Eaves, Mark C. Walkey, Thea Pulbrook, Stephen A. Moggach, Matthew J. Piggott, Paul J. Low and George A. Koutsantonis

Dalton Trans., 2023, 52, 185
DOI: 10.1039/D2DT03045D

Orthogonally modulated molecular transport junctions for resettable electronic logic gates

Fanben Meng, Yves-Marie Hervault, Qi Shao, Benhui Hu, Lucie Norel, Stéphane Rigaut and Xiaodong Chen

Nat Commun, 2014, 5
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4023

In situ generation of palladium nanoparticles using agro waste and their use as catalyst for copper‐, amine‐ and ligand‐free Sonogashira reaction

Anindita Dewan, Manashi Sarmah, Utpal Bora and Ashim J. Thakur

Applied Organom Chemis, 2017, 31
DOI: 10.1002/aoc.3646

Photophysical Properties of Oligo(phenylene ethynylene) Iridium(III) Complexes Functionalized with Metal‐Anchoring Groups

Julia Ponce, Juan Aragó, Ignacio Vayá, Jorge Gómez Magenti, Sergio Tatay, Enrique Ortí and Eugenio Coronado

Eur J Inorg Chem, 2016, 2016, 1851
DOI: 10.1002/ejic.201501409

Studies on Monolayer Formation and Electron Transport in Au|LB|Au Junctions Containing 3d4 MnIII Metallosurfactants

Abigail Cousino, Lanka D. Wickramasinghe, Widana Kaushalya, S. Sameera Perera, Habib Baydoun, Alice R. Walker and Cláudio N. Verani

J. Phys. Chem. C, 2023, 127, 16654
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.3c03616

Experimental and Computational Studies of the Single-Molecule Conductance of Ru(II) and Pt(II) trans-Bis(acetylide) Complexes

Oday A. Al-Owaedi, David C. Milan, Marie-Christine Oerthel, Sören Bock, Dmitry S. Yufit, Judith A. K. Howard, Simon J. Higgins, Richard J. Nichols, Colin J. Lambert, Martin R. Bryce and Paul J. Low

Organometallics, 2016, 35, 2944
DOI: 10.1021/acs.organomet.6b00472

Ruthenium Carbon-Rich Group as a Redox-Switchable Metal Coupling Unit in Linear Trinuclear Complexes

Emmanuel Di Piazza, Corentin Boilleau, Antoine Vacher, Khalissa Merahi, Lucie Norel, Karine Costuas, Thierry Roisnel, Sylvie Choua, Philippe Turek and Stéphane Rigaut

Inorg. Chem., 2017, 56, 14540
DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.7b02288

Lanthanide Sensitization with Ruthenium Carbon-Rich Complexes and Redox Commutation of Near-IR Luminescence

Lucie Norel, Emmanuel Di Piazza, Min Feng, Antoine Vacher, Xiaoyan He, Thierry Roisnel, Olivier Maury and Stéphane Rigaut

Organometallics, 2014, 33, 4824
DOI: 10.1021/om500059d

Synthesis and intramolecular electronic interactions of hexaarylbenzene bearing redox-active Cp*(dppe)Fe-C≡C- termini

Yuya Tanaka and Munetaka Akita

Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, 2018, 878, 30
DOI: 10.1016/j.jorganchem.2018.10.002

A green protocol for ligand, copper and base free Sonogashira cross-coupling reaction

Anindita Dewan, Manashi Sarmah, Utpal Bora and Ashim J. Thakur

Tetrahedron Letters, 2016, 57, 3760
DOI: 10.1016/j.tetlet.2016.07.021

Adsorption of a metalorganic complex at a metal surface: A density functional theory study vs. model description

T. Kostyrko and T. Ślusarski

Journal of Applied Physics, 2015, 117
DOI: 10.1063/1.4906045

Diarylethene-Containing Carbon-Rich Ruthenium Organometallics: Tuning of Electrochromism

Yifei Liu, Cheikh Mbacké Ndiaye, Corinne Lagrost, Karine Costuas, Sylvie Choua, Philippe Turek, Lucie Norel and Stéphane Rigaut

Inorg. Chem., 2014, 53, 8172
DOI: 10.1021/ic5013044

Synthesis, Electrochemistry, and Single-Molecule Conductance of Bimetallic 2,3,5,6-Tetra(pyridine-2-yl)pyrazine-Based Complexes

Ross Davidson, Jing-Hong Liang, David Costa Milan, Bing-Wei Mao, Richard J. Nichols, Simon J. Higgins, Dmitry S. Yufit, Andrew Beeby and Paul J. Low

Inorg. Chem., 2015, 54, 5487
DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.5b00507

The Excited‐State Creutz–Taube Ion

German E. Pieslinger, Ivana Ramírez‐Wierzbicki and Alejandro Cadranel

Angewandte Chemie, 2022, 134
DOI: 10.1002/ange.202211747

Carbon-rich organometallics: Application to molecular electronics

Munetaka Akita and Yuya Tanaka

Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2022, 461, 214501
DOI: 10.1016/j.ccr.2022.214501

2,5-Pyrazine dicarboxylic acid ligand bridged symmetrical dinuclear ruthenium(II) complexes: Synthesis, structure and spectroelectrochemical properties

Thangavel Sathiya Kamatchi, Thomas Michael Scherer, Rajendran Dinesh, Giriraj Kalaiarasi, Subramanian Muthumari, Horst Puschmann, Wolfgang Kaim and Karuppannan Natarajan

Inorganic Chemistry Communications, 2025, 178, 114539
DOI: 10.1016/j.inoche.2025.114539

Molecular Structure–(Thermo)electric Property Relationships in Single-Molecule Junctions and Comparisons with Single- and Multiple-Parameter Models

Masnun Naher, David C. Milan, Oday A. Al-Owaedi, Inco J. Planje, Sören Bock, Juan Hurtado-Gallego, Pablo Bastante, Zahra Murtada Abd Dawood, Laura Rincón-García, Gabino Rubio-Bollinger, Simon J. Higgins, Nicolás Agraït, Colin J. Lambert, Richard J. Nichols and Paul J. Low

J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2021, 143, 3817
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.0c11605

The chemistry of the carbon-transition metal double and triple bond: Annual survey covering the year 2013

James W. Herndon

Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2015, 286, 30
DOI: 10.1016/j.ccr.2014.09.021

Synthesis, Structure and Physical Properties of “Wire-like” Metal Complexes

Masnun Naher, Sören Bock, Zakary M. Langtry, Kieran M. O’Malley, Alexandre N. Sobolev, Brian W. Skelton, Marcus Korb and Paul J. Low

Organometallics, 2020, 39, 4667
DOI: 10.1021/acs.organomet.0c00685

A Combined Computational and Spectroelectrochemical Study of Platinum-Bridged Bis-Triarylamine Systems

Matthias Parthey, Kevin B. Vincent, Manuel Renz, Phil A. Schauer, Dmitry S. Yufit, Judith A. K. Howard, Martin Kaupp and Paul J. Low

Inorg. Chem., 2014, 53, 1544
DOI: 10.1021/ic402538e

Syntheses and molecular structures of trans-bis(alkynyl) tetrakis-triethylphosphite ruthenium complexes

Samantha G. Eaves, Brian W. Skelton and Paul J. Low

Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, 2017, 847, 242
DOI: 10.1016/j.jorganchem.2017.04.028

Ruthenium Carbon-Rich Complexes as Redox Switchable Metal Coupling Units

Emmanuel Di Piazza, Areej Merhi, Lucie Norel, Sylvie Choua, Philippe Turek and Stéphane Rigaut

Inorg. Chem., 2015, 54, 6347
DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.5b00667

Synthesis and charge delocalization property of multimetallic molecular wires with diethynylthiophene bridges

Kaho Sugimoto, Hidekazu Idei, Yuya Tanaka and Munetaka Akita

Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, 2017, 847, 121
DOI: 10.1016/j.jorganchem.2017.02.033

Inorganic and Organometallic Molecular Wires for Single‐Molecule Devices

Yuya Tanaka, Manabu Kiguchi and Munetaka Akita

Chemistry A European J, 2017, 23, 4741
DOI: 10.1002/chem.201604812

Single Gold Atom Containing Oligo(phenylene)ethynylene: Assembly into LB Films and Electrical Characterization

Luz M. Ballesteros, Santiago Martín, Santiago Marqués-González, María C. López, Simon J. Higgins, Richard J. Nichols, Paul J. Low and Pilar Cea

J. Phys. Chem. C, 2015, 119, 784
DOI: 10.1021/jp510078w

Attachment of a Diruthenium Compound to Au and SiO2/Si Surfaces by “Click” Chemistry

Sujitra Pookpanratana, Iulia Savchenko, Sean N. Natoli, Steven P. Cummings, Lee J. Richter, Joseph W. F. Robertson, Curt A. Richter, Tong Ren and Christina A. Hacker

Langmuir, 2014, 30, 10280
DOI: 10.1021/la501670c

Charge transport at the protein–electrode interface in the emerging field of BioMolecular Electronics

Tracy Q. Ha, Inco J. Planje, Jhanelle R.G. White, Albert C. Aragonès and Ismael Díez-Pérez

Current Opinion in Electrochemistry, 2021, 28, 100734
DOI: 10.1016/j.coelec.2021.100734

Coordinating Tectons. Experimental and Computational Infrared Data as Tools To Identify Conformational Isomers and Explore Electronic Structures of 4-Ethynyl-2,2′-bipyridine Complexes

Campbell F. R. Mackenzie, Sören Bock, Chia-Yang Lim, Brian W. Skelton, Carlo Nervi, Duncan A. Wild, Paul J. Low and George A. Koutsantonis

Organometallics, 2017, 36, 1946
DOI: 10.1021/acs.organomet.7b00086

Metallosupramolecular approach toward multifunctional magnetic devices for molecular spintronics

María Castellano, Rafael Ruiz-García, Joan Cano, Jesús Ferrando-Soria, Emilio Pardo, Francisco R. Fortea-Pérez, Salah-Eddine Stiriba, Wdeson P. Barros, Humberto O. Stumpf, Laura Cañadillas-Delgado, Jorge Pasán, Catalina Ruiz-Pérez, Giovanni de Munno, Donatella Armentano, Yves Journaux, Francesc Lloret and Miguel Julve

Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2015, 303, 110
DOI: 10.1016/j.ccr.2015.05.013

The Many Facets of RuII(dppe)2 Acetylide Compounds

Stéphane Rigaut and Olivier Galangau

Chemistry A European J, 2024, 30
DOI: 10.1002/chem.202402788

Ruthenium(II) as Conductive Promoter To Alleviate Conductance Attenuation in Oligoynyl Chains

Li-Yi Zhang, Ping Duan, Jin-Yun Wang, Qian-Chong Zhang and Zhong-Ning Chen

J. Phys. Chem. C, 2019, 123, 5282
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.9b00148

Metal Complex Molecular Junctions as Thermoelectric Devices

Yuya Tanaka

Chemistry A European J, 2023, 29
DOI: 10.1002/chem.202300472

Tuning of Metal–Metal Interactions in Mixed-Valence States of Cyclometalated Dinuclear Ruthenium and Osmium Complexes Bearing Tetrapyridylpyrazine or -benzene

Takumi Nagashima, Takuya Nakabayashi, Takashi Suzuki, Katsuhiko Kanaizuka, Hiroaki Ozawa, Yu-Wu Zhong, Shigeyuki Masaoka, Ken Sakai and Masa-aki Haga

Organometallics, 2014, 33, 4893
DOI: 10.1021/om500142t

Tetraiodoallene, I2C=C=CI2 – the missing link between I2C=CI2 and I2C=C=C=CI2 – and the oxidation product, 2,2-diiodoacrylicacid, I2C=CH(CO2H)*

Michael I. Bruce, Nicholas J. Head, Brian W. Skelton, Mark A. Spackman and Allan H. White

Australian Journal of Chemistry, 2017, 71, 70
DOI: 10.1071/CH17348

Organometallic radicals of iron and ruthenium: Similarities and dissimilarities of radical reactivity and charge delocalization

Yuya Tanaka and Munetaka Akita

Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2019, 388, 334
DOI: 10.1016/j.ccr.2019.02.036

Thermally Stable Monoruthenium Acetylide Radical Species

Yuya Tanaka, Atsushi Yashiro and Munetaka Akita

Synlett, 2024
DOI: 10.1055/s-0042-1751538

Electron‐Transfer Kinetics in Polymetallic Carbon‐Rich Ruthenium(II) Bis(σ‐arylacetylides) Wires Connected to Gold

Andrea Mulas, Yves‐Marie Hervault, Lucie Norel, Stéphane Rigaut and Corinne Lagrost

ChemElectroChem, 2015, 2, 1799
DOI: 10.1002/celc.201500206

Molecular Electronics: History and Fundamentals

Santiago Marqués-González and Paul J. Low

Australian Journal of Chemistry, 2016, 69, 244
DOI: 10.1071/CH15634

The Excited‐State Creutz–Taube Ion

German E. Pieslinger, Ivana Ramírez‐Wierzbicki and Alejandro Cadranel

Angew Chem Int Ed, 2022, 61
DOI: 10.1002/anie.202211747

Sonogashira cross-coupling reaction catalyzed by N-heterocyclic carbene-Pd(II)-PPh3 complexes under copper free and aerobic conditions

Zineb Imene Dehimat, Sedat Yaşar, Dahmane Tebbani and İsmail Özdemir

Inorganica Chimica Acta, 2018, 469, 325
DOI: 10.1016/j.ica.2017.09.048

Combined Spectroscopic and Quantum Chemical Study of [trans-Ru(C≡CC6H4R1-4)2(dppe)2]n+ and [trans-Ru(C≡CC6H4R1-4)(C≡CC6H4R2-4)(dppe)2]n+ (n = 0, 1) Complexes: Interpretations beyond the Lowest Energy Conformer Paradigm

Santiago Marqués-González, Matthias Parthey, Dmitry S. Yufit, Judith A. K. Howard, Martin Kaupp and Paul J. Low

Organometallics, 2014, 33, 4947
DOI: 10.1021/om500265s

Five-Membered Heterocycles as Linking Units in Strongly Coupled Homobimetallic Group 8 Metal Half-Sandwich Complexes

Ulrike Pfaff, Alexander Hildebrandt, Marcus Korb, Dieter Schaarschmidt, Marco Rosenkranz, Alexey Popov and Heinrich Lang

Organometallics, 2015, 34, 2826
DOI: 10.1021/acs.organomet.5b00104

Freezing the conductance of platinum(II) complexes by quantum interference effect

Sai-Sai Yan, Jin-Yun Wang, Zi-You Pan, Da-Sheng Zheng, Qian-Chong Zhang and Zhong-Ning Chen

Chinese Chemical Letters, 2022, 33, 3263
DOI: 10.1016/j.cclet.2021.10.092

Coordinating Tectons: Bimetallic Complexes from Bipyridyl Terminated Group 8 Alkynyl Complexes

George A. Koutsantonis, Paul J. Low, Campbell F. R. Mackenzie, Brian W. Skelton and Dmitry S. Yufit

Organometallics, 2014, 33, 4911
DOI: 10.1021/om500172r

Architectural alterations from 1D to 3D coordination polymers based on a pair of isomeric linear and V-shaped triazole/thiophene/triazole bridging ligands

Bin Hu, Yin-Ge Wang, Yuan Dai, Yu-Xin Peng and Wei Huang

Polyhedron, 2014, 83, 205
DOI: 10.1016/j.poly.2014.06.026

“Doping” of Polyyne with an Organometallic Fragment Leads to Highly Conductive Metallapolyyne Molecular Wire

Yuya Tanaka, Yuya Kato, Tomofumi Tada, Shintaro Fujii, Manabu Kiguchi and Munetaka Akita

J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2018, 140, 10080
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b04484

Acene Size‐Dependent Transition of The Radical Centers From the Metal to The Acene Parts In Monocationic Dinuclear (Diethynylacene)diyl Complexes

Yuya Tanaka, Reo Kawano and Munetaka Akita

Chemistry A European J, 2022, 28
DOI: 10.1002/chem.202201358

Single‐Molecule Conductance Studies of Organometallic Complexes Bearing 3‐Thienyl Contacting Groups

Sören Bock, Oday A. Al‐Owaedi, Samantha G. Eaves, David C. Milan, Mario Lemmer, Brian W. Skelton, Henrry M. Osorio, Richard J. Nichols, Simon J. Higgins, Pilar Cea, Nicholas J. Long, Tim Albrecht, Santiago Martín, Colin J. Lambert and Paul J. Low

Chemistry A European J, 2017, 23, 2133
DOI: 10.1002/chem.201604565

Effects of Electrode–Molecule Binding and Junction Geometry on the Single-Molecule Conductance of bis-2,2′:6′,2″-Terpyridine-based Complexes

Ross Davidson, Oday A. Al-Owaedi, David C. Milan, Qiang Zeng, Joanne Tory, František Hartl, Simon J. Higgins, Richard J. Nichols, Colin J. Lambert and Paul J. Low

Inorg. Chem., 2016, 55, 2691
DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.5b02094

Spin-crossover in iron(II)-phenylene ethynylene-2,6-di(pyrazol-1-yl) pyridine hybrids: toward switchable molecular wire-like architectures

Kuppusamy Senthil Kumar, Ivan Šalitroš, Benoît Heinrich, Simona Moldovan, Matteo Mauro and Mario Ruben

J. Phys.: Condens. Matter, 2020, 32, 204002
DOI: 10.1088/1361-648X/ab6cc2

Combining Photomodulation and Rectification in Coordination Molecular Wires Based on Dithienylethene Molecular Junctions

Imen Hnid, Arkadiusz Grempka, Amina Khettabi, Xiaonan Sun, Jean Christophe Lacroix, Frederic Lafolet and Saioa Cobo

J. Phys. Chem. C, 2020, 124, 26304
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.0c08233

Synthesis and Characterizations of Macrocyclic Cr(III) and Co(III) 1-Ethynyl Naphthalene and 9-Ethynyl Anthracene Complexes: An Investigation of Structural and Spectroscopic Properties

Eileen C. Judkins, Matthias Zeller and Tong Ren

Inorg. Chem., 2018, 57, 2249
DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.7b03128

Single-chain and monolayered conjugated polymers for molecular electronics

Zhao-Yang Zhang and Tao Li

Chinese Chemical Letters, 2016, 27, 1209
DOI: 10.1016/j.cclet.2016.05.031