“…Indeed, at the turn of the millennium, 2,2′-bipyridine was described as “the most widely used ligand” [1] a status that has changed little in the intervening two decades. Not surprisingly, this commonly used type of ligand, together with the higher oligopyridines and the closely related species 1,10-phenanthroline, 2 (Figure 1), has been the subject of a number of reviews [2,3,4,5,6,7,8] since the first review of their coordination chemistry in 1954 [9]. 2,2′-Bipyridine is the first member of a series of higher oligopyridines, which can also act as polydentate ligands for metal-centres [10,11,12,13,14,15].…”