title: Self-assembly of octarhenium-based neutral luminescent rectangular prisms.
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.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Chemistry, Academia Sinica, Taipei 115, Taiwan.
authors.forename: Bala
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Manimaran
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Thanasekaran
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Rajendran
authors.forename: Rong-Tang
authors.initials: RT
authors.lastname: Liao
authors.forename: Yen-Hsiang
authors.initials: YH
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Gene-Hsiang
authors.initials: GH
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Shie-Ming
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Peng
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Rajagopal
authors.forename: Kuang-Lieh
authors.initials: KL
authors.lastname: Lu