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Metal bis(acetylide) complex molecular wires: concepts and design strategies
David C Milan1, Andrea Vezzoli, Inco J Planje
1Department of Chemistry, University of Liverpool, Crown St, Liverpool, L69 7ZD, UK.
Abstract:
The past decade has seen a remarkable surge in studies of thin-film and single-molecule electronics, due in no small part to the development and advancement of experimental methods for the construction and measurement of metal|molecule|metal junctions. Within the plethora of molecular structures that have been investigated, metal complexes of general form trans-M(C[triple bond, length as m-dash]CR)2(Ln) have attracted attention from the inorganic and organometallic chemistry community in the search for efficient molecular wires due to the potential π-d-π orbital mixing along the molecular backbone. In this article progress towards this goal will be summarised, and design strategies for future molecular components discussed.
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