Rhenium(I)-Based Metallacycles for Sensing Applications

<div>Coordination-driven self-assembly provides unique opportunities to prepare</div><div>highly complex chemical systems from simple components and has led to significant</div><div>progress in the construction of supramolecular materials with novel topologies and</div><div>exploitable functions. During the past few decades, metallacycles have captured</div><div>widespread interests due to their wide applications in catalysis, sensor, and biological</div><div>relevant applications. Thus, exploring new metallacycles, studying their physical and</div><div>chemical properties and applications have become one of the most attractive and</div><div>exciting areas of inorganic chemistry and supramolecular chemistry. Among which,</div><div>rhenium(I)-based metallacycles, constructed from the rhenium metal ions and a variety</div><div>of aromatic ligands, have attracted considerable attention because of their unique</div><div>potentials in light-harvesting, catalysis, sensing, biomedical, etc. In this chapter, we</div><div>summarize the recent research progress in rhenium-based metallacycles with their</div><div>synthesis, properties and potential application in host-guest chemistry.</div>