DOI: 10.1039/d6ra04107h ISSN: 2046-2069
Multi-component self-assembled trithiocyanurato-bridged manganese(
i
)- and rhenium(
i
)-based diverse shaped tri- and hexanuclear metallacages
Buthanapalli Ramakrishna, Udit Kumar, Shruti Verma, Anupam Bhim, Suman Bhattacharya, Binoy Krishna Saha, Bala. Manimaran Trithiocyanurato-bridged Mn(
i
) and Re(
i
)-based trinuclear dome & igloo shaped, and hexanuclear hourglass shaped metallacages were achieved in a single-step and characterized using various spectroscopic techniques and single-crystal X-ray analysis.