S1 2,2′-Bipyridinyl Carboranes as B,N,N-ligands in Cyclometallated Complexes of Platinum(II) Anton M. Prokhorov,* ,a Pavel A. Slepukhin, b Vladimir L. Rusinov, a Valery N. Kalinin, c and Dmitry N. Kozhevnikov a,b a Ural Federal University, Mira 28, Ekaterinburg, Russia. Tel: +7 343 3754501; E-mail: aprohor@yandex.ru b I. Postovsky Institute of Organic Synthesis, Kovalevskoy 20, Ekaterinburg, Russia. E-mail: dnk@ios.uran.ru c Institute of Organoelement Compounds, Vavilova 28, Moscow, Russia. Electronic Supplimentary Information (ESI) Electronic Supplementary Material (ESI) for Chemical Communications This journal is © The Royal Society of Chemistry 2011