title: The design and synthesis of an innovative octacarboxy-silsesquioxane building block.
abstract: An octacarboxy-silsesquioxane was designed and synthesised through a multiple-step regioselective reaction. This novel hybrid inorganic-organic compound presents highly attractive features for application as a building block, as it has a robust, rigid structure and a high number of carboxylic coordination sites organised in a cubic symmetry.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Surface Chemistry and Catalysis, University of Leuven, Kasteelpark Arenberg 23, Heverlee, 3001, Belgium. paolo.pescarmona@biw.kuleuven.be.
authors.forename: Swaminathan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Shanmugan
authors.forename: Damiano
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Cani
authors.forename: Paolo P
authors.initials: PP
authors.lastname: Pescarmona