Self-assembly of octarhenium-based neutral luminescent rectangular prisms

Bala Manimaran; P Thanasekaran; T Rajendran; Rong-Tang Liao; Yen-Hsiang Liu; Gene-Hsiang Lee; Shie-Ming Peng; S Rajagopal; Kuang-Lieh Lu

doi:10.1021/ic034172j

Self-assembly of octarhenium-based neutral luminescent rectangular prisms

Inorg Chem. 2003 Aug 11;42(16):4795-7. doi: 10.1021/ic034172j.

Authors

Bala Manimaran¹, P Thanasekaran, T Rajendran, Rong-Tang Liao, Yen-Hsiang Liu, Gene-Hsiang Lee, Shie-Ming Peng, S Rajagopal, Kuang-Lieh Lu

Affiliation

¹ Institute of Chemistry, Academia Sinica, Taipei 115, Taiwan.

PMID: 12895097
DOI: 10.1021/ic034172j

Abstract

Self-assembly of rhenium-based nanoscale rectangular prismatic boxes has been achieved in quantitative conversion. The fac-rhenium corner provided three mutually perpendicular coordination sites and served as a good candidate for the construction of 3-D boxes. These are the first Re-based, neutral, luminescent prisms of M(8)L(2)L'(8) type that has been characterized crystallographically. Their luminescent properties and molecular recognition capabilities make these molecular prisms interesting supramolecules.