Conspectus The design of solid-state materials whose properties and functions can be
manipulated in a controlled manner by the application of light is an important objective in …

Three new ruthenium–sulfur dioxide linkage photoisomeric complexes in the [Ru (NH3) 4
(SO2) X] Cl2· H2O family (X= pyridine (1); 3-chloropyridine (2); 4-chloropyridine (3)) have …

Single-crystal optical actuators are emerging as a prospective material form for nano-optical
mechanical switching, sensing, or transduction device applications in nanotechnology and …

At temperatures below 150 K, the photoactivated metastable endo‐nitrito linkage isomer [Ni
(Et4dien)(η2‐O, ON)(η1‐ONO)](Et4dien= N, N, N′, N′‐tetraethyldiethylenetriamine) can …

Photoresponsive materials are an important contemporary research area with applications
in, for example, energy and catalysis. Mechanistic information on solid-state photochemical …

We report the discovery of an η2-SO2 linkage photoisomer in the osmium pentaammine
coordination complex,[Os (NH3) 5 (SO2)][Os (NH3) 5 (HSO3)] Cl4 (1). Its dark-and light …

Low temperature, single crystal photocrystallographic studies have been carried out on four
square planar Group 10 complexes [Ni (PEt3) 2 (NO2) 2] 1,[Pd (PPh3) 2 (NO2) 2] 2,[Pd …

Thermally reversible solid-state linkage SO2 photoisomers of three complexes in the [Ru
(NH3) 4SO2 X] tosylate2 family are captured in their metastable states using …

The complex [Ru (bpy) 2 (bpSO)](PF6) 2, where bpy is 2, 2′-bipydine and bpSO is 1, 2-bis
(phenylsulfinyl) ethane, exhibits three distinct isomers which are accessible upon metal-to …

Over the last 30 years, the single-crystal photocrystallographic technique has been
developed to determine the three-dimensional crystal and molecular structures of …