Thunderbolt not working between MacbookPro 10.9 and Imac 10.6

Hello, I have a macbook pro running 10.9 and a 27 iMac which is running 10.6.
I would like to use the iMac as a display and purchased a thunderbolt cable and connected the two but can get the MacBook Pro to power the Imac display or even link them.
Please help, what am I doing wrong.
Command F2 on the iMac wont switch the displays and powering off the macbook pro and restarting wont make the iMac do anything either.
imac
Model Name: iMac
Model Identifier: iMac11,3
Processor Name: Intel Core i5
Processor Speed: 2.8 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 4
L2 Cache (per core): 256 KB
L3 Cache: 8 MB
Memory: 4 GB
MacBook Pro OSX 10.9.5

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