Self-Assembly of Octarhenium-Based Neutral Luminescent Rectangular Prisms

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 M8L2L‘8 type that has been characterized crystallographically.
Their luminescent properties and molecular recognition capabilities
make these molecular prisms interesting supramolecules.