“…Two main families of the MMX-chain compounds have so far been reported: A 4 [Pt 2 (pop) 4 X 4 ]· n H 2 O (A = Li, K, Cs, NH 4 ; pop = diphosphonate, H 2 P 2 O 5 2- ; X = Cl, Br, I) − and M 2 (dta) 4 I (M = Ni, Pt; dta = dithioacetate, CH 3 CS 2 - ). − Interestingly, electrical conductivity and thermoelectric power measurements for a single crystal of Pt 2 (dta) 4 I parallel to the chain axis b 24,25,28,29 revealed that this complex indicates a metallic temperature dependence above a metal−semiconductor transition temperature T M - S = 300 K. Polarized reflectance spectra of a single crystal at room temperature 24,28 also indicated that a Drude-like reflectance associated with interbinuclear charge transfer was observed for the polarization parallel to the chain axis ( E || b ), which suggests that Pt 2 (dta) 4 I is a one-dimensional metal. A metallic behavior was first observed in Pt 2 (dta) 4 I among halogen-bridged one-dimensional transition-metal complexes.…”