Platinum-pyridyl-carboxylate

Likewise, the self-assembly between certain tetragonal donors and 90° acceptors results in the formation of an open box trigonal prism, where three donors form the square faces along the width of the prism, joined at each vertex by a sum total of six platinum acceptors. This trigmial prism can be transformed into its multicompOTient counterpart upon the addition of the same carboxylate triangle. Since only three pyridyl donors are found in each open box prism, each pair of prisms affords enough donors for three transformed SCCs. This demands four equivalents of triangle in order to achieve the necessary [8+4+-2] prism stoichiometry. 

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