Meet the editor

Hitoshi Ishida received his BEng, MEng, and DrEng at Osaka University, Japan, with research on electrochemical/photochemical CO2 reduction catalyzed by ruthenium complexes. He was an assistant professor at Kumamoto University, Japan from 1988 to 1997, a group leader for the Inoue Photochirogenesis project, Exploratory Research for Advanced Technology (ERATO) of the Japan Science and Technology (JST) Corporation from

1997 to 2001, and an associate professor at the Graduate School of Science, Kitasato University, Japan from 2001 to 2020. He was also a researcher in the PRESTO Program "Chemical Conversion of Light Energy" of the JST from 2009 to 2015. He is currently a professor in the Department of Chemistry and Materials Engineering, Faculty of Chemistry, Materials and Bioengineering, Kansai University, Japan.

Contents

**Preface XI**

**Chapter 1 1**

**Chapter 2 17**

**Chapter 3 41**

**Chapter 4 73**

**Chapter 5 99**

**Chapter 6 123**

**Chapter 7 155**

Detection of Bio-Relevant Metal Ions by Luminescent

Ruthenium-Tris-Bipyridine Derivatives as a Divine Complex for Electrochemiluminescence Based Biosensor Applications *by Chikkili Venkateswara Raju, Mathavan Sornambigai* 

Surface-Confined Ruthenium Complexes Bearing Benzimidazole

Mechanisms of Photoisomerization and Water Oxidation Catalysis

*by Yuta Tsubonouchi, Eman A. Mohamed, Zaki N. Zahran* 

Recent Advances in Ru Catalyzed Transfer Hydrogenation

Hydrogenation and Hydrogenolysis with Ruthenium Catalysts

Access to *N*-Heterocyclic Molecules *via* Ru(II)-Catalyzed Oxidative

*by Nidhi Tyagi, Gongutri Borah, Pitambar Patel* 

and Application to Biomass Conversion

*by Bhisma K. Patel and Amitava Rakshit*

Ru(II)-Polypyridyl Based Sensors *by Pramod Kumar and Sushil Kumar*

*and Shanmugam Senthil Kumar*

*by Masa-aki Haga*

*and Masayuki Yagi*

and Its Future Perspectives

*and Danaboyina Ramaiah*

*by Thomas Ernst Müller*

Alkyne Annulation Reactions

Derivatives: Toward Functional Devices

of Ruthenium(II) Aquo Complexes
