In this Dalton Transactions Hot Article, Sathiyendiran Malaichamy and colleagues prepared stable, luminescent rhenium-based metallacycles decorated with furan units.
The 2D rectangle with four furans and the 3D trigonal prism with six furans were synthesised from readily available starting materials in a one-pot procedure.
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Furan-decorated neutral Re(I)-based 2D rectangle and 3D trigonal prism
Deepak Gupta, Palanisamy Rajakannu, Bhaskaran Shankar, Ramasamy Shanmugam, Firasat Hussain, Biprajit Sarkar and Malaichamy Sathiyendiran
Dalton Trans., 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0DT01227K, Communication