Unimolecular cooperative metallaphotocatalysis with conjugately bridged Ir–Ni complexes and its applications in organic coupling reactions

The novel unimolecular Ir-Ni bimetallic system with the conjugated bridging ligand has been developed. Photoinduced cross-coupling reactions (C–O, C–S, C–N) demonstrated the enormous potential of a conjugately bridged Ir–Ni catalytic system.