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Abstract This review covers recent advances in the preparation, characterization and application of µ-oxo dimeric complexes with different metals and non-metal and macrocyclic ligands achieved during last ten years. Binuclear iron, manganese, ruthenium, chromium, molybdenum, rhenium, aluminium, silicon, phosphorus and boron oxygen-bridged complexes supported by phthalocyanine, porphyrin, porphyrazine, corrole, tetrabenzotriazacorrole, subphthalocyanine and subporphyrin ligands have been prepared and characterized demonstrating a great versatility of µ-oxo binuclear macrocyclic platform which can accommodate a myriad of homoleptic and heteroleptic combinations with the same or different metal sites. They exhibit interesting structural and electronic properties allowing their increasing use in catalysis, optoelectronic, medical and other applications.