title: Self-assembled half-sandwich polyhedral cages via flexible Schiff-base ligands: an unusual macrocycle-to-cage conversion.
abstract: An edge-directed strategy was adopted to construct highly ordered polyhedral structures using flexible functions. Half-sandwich M6(L1)4 octahedral and M8(L2)4 cubic cages have been assembled by flexible Schiff-base ligands upon coordination to Cp*Rh(iii) organometallic acceptors. In particular, the rearrangement from a Rh(iii)-based half-sandwich M2(HL1)2 macrocycle to M6(L1)4 cage was found to occur in a solution.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Collaborative Innovation Centre of Chemistry for Energy Materials, Department of Chemistry, Fudan University, 220 Handan road, Shanghai 200433, P. R. China. gxjin@fudan.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Jing-Jing
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Yue-Jian
authors.initials: YJ
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.forename: Zhen-Hua
authors.initials: ZH
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Guo-Xin
authors.initials: GX
authors.lastname: Jin