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.