The first types of transition metal complex cationic dye-sensitized 3D hybrid porous iodoplumbates exhibiting outstanding visible light-driven photoelectric properties.

One-dimensional organic–inorganic hybrid cuprous halides exhibit strong tunable photoluminescence from cyan to red emissions with large Stokes shifts.

The synthesis of central-ring halogenated pentiptycene phenols 12-14 and dihalogenated pentiptycenes 15-17 is reported. Their utilities as building blocks for preparing new pentiptycene-derived pi-conjugated systems through the Sonogashira, Heck, and Suzuki reactions are also demonstrated.