We synthesized a long-chain phenylazopyridine ligand and used it to obtain three new amphiphilic trinuclear ruthenium acetate clusters. The amphiphilicity and anisometric form of the long-chain ligand allowed the complexes to selfassemble at the liquid-air interface and enabled their deposition by the Langmuir-Blodgett technique. We obtained the linear complex [Ru 3 O(C 2 H 3 O 2 ) 6 (py) 2 L] + [L = 4-(4-dodecyl-
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