Review on: Thiolate based metal Complexes as Potential advanced Material for Electronic Industrial and Bio-Medical Applications

The dithiolene ligands and their complexes are well recognized by researchers. The diverse bonding behavior and versatility in chemical nature resulting from electronically delocalized pathway for electrons in the structure of these complexes. These specific features make them very promising raw molecular compounds synthesis of wide variety of magnetically and electronically important materials. Several main group, alkali metal and transition metal complexes with conductive, semi conductive and super conductive properties have been reported. ln material science the applications of metal dithiolates cover the wide spread fields like special magnetic behavior (ferromagnetism, ferrimagnetism etc). In this article the semiconductor behavior of monometallic and homo metallic, hetero bimetallic as well as poly-metallic complexes have been reviewed. The conventional semiconductor molecular materials are used in semiconductor industries. They have some limitations regarding temperature resistance, high frequency and high voltage energy harvesting applications. The metal dithiolates have potency to solve these issues and they can be used as wide band semiconductor compounds. The wide band gap complexes also have appreciable importance in defence research, signal systems, vehicle development etc. There are several biologically important and medicinal complexes have also been reported. The present paper deals with the chemistry of metal dithiolates including bonding patterns, synthetic strategy and multifarious applications in electronics and biomedical fields.