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• Metal-organic conducting polymers - photoactive switching in molecular wires; luminescence behaviour of polynuclear metals complexes of copper (I), silver (I), and gold (I); electron transfer within synthetic polypeptides and de novo designed proteins; tridentate bridging ligands in the construction of stereochemically defined supramolecular complexes; the photophysical and photochemical properties of metallo-1,2-enedithiolates; molecular and supramolecular photochemistry of porphyrins and metalloporphyrins.