Photophysics of transition metal complexes

This chapter deals with studies on the photophysical properties of selected metal complexes and their multinuclear assemblies reported in literature in the period January 2013 to December 2014. The transition metal species considered here belong to families of complexes featuring largely studied optical properties. The complexes are from the following metal centres: Cu(I), Ag(I), Au(I), Zn(II), Cd(II), Hg(II), Re(I), Ru(II), Os(II), Ir(III), Pt(II) and Pd(II); finally some example is given of lanthanide (Ln) complexes.