title: Metallostars: high-nuclearity linearly developed nanostructures containing multiple cluster motifs.
abstract: Metallostars are complexes in which a single branching site bears a number of metallated arms. Although they are related to metallodendrimers, they have the advantage of being capable of extending in an unlimited sense; in contrast to metallodendrimers, steric interactions decrease with increasing generation number. In this paper a series of polyalkyne stars with four and six arms, based upon a single tetrahedral carbon core and a benzene core, respectively, are reported and their reactions with [Co2(CO)8] to give metallostars that contain multiple [C2Co2(CO)6] motifs are described.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Anorganische Chemie der Universität Basel, Switzerland.
authors.forename: E C
authors.initials: EC
authors.lastname: Constable
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Eich
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Fenske
authors.forename: C E
authors.initials: CE
authors.lastname: Housecroft
authors.forename: L A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Johnston