title: A highly symmetric diamond-like assembly of cyclotricatechylene-based tetrahedral cages.
abstract: The combination of six Cu(II) centres with four cyclotricatechylene (ctc(6-)) ligands generates large (Cu(6)ctc(4))(12-) cages with the topology of the tetrahedron. The anionic tetrahedral cages are cemented together, triangular face to triangular face, by Na(+) cations together with water molecules to generate a highly symmetric diamond-like assembly (space group Fd-3m, the same as that of diamond itself) whose adamantane-like units have an iodide ion at the centre of every cyclohexane-like face.
authors.affiliation: School of Chemistry, University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia. bfa@unimelb.edu.au
authors.forename: Brendan F
authors.initials: BF
authors.lastname: Abrahams
authors.forename: Berin A
authors.initials: BA
authors.lastname: Boughton
authors.forename: Nicholas J
authors.initials: NJ
authors.lastname: FitzGerald
authors.forename: Jessica L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Holmes
authors.forename: Richard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Robson
mesh_terms: D002396:Catechols / Q000737:chemistry*; D003300:Copper / Q000737:chemistry; D008958:Models, Molecular; D008968:Molecular Conformation; D009942:Organometallic Compounds / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D002396:Catechols; D009942:Organometallic Compounds; D003300:Copper; C034221:catechol