Abstract
This review gives an account of the coordination chemistry, metallo-supramolecular chemistry and application of mono- and oligopyridine-based macrocyclic ligands. For this purpose, recently reported ligands and their metal complexes possessing at least one pyridyl donor group in a cyclic structure as the metal binding site have been selected. The application and prospects of such compounds in different scientific areas have been delineated. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.