@article{2928292, title = "Circular serendipity: in situ ligand transformation for the self-assembly of an hexadecametallic [CuII16] wheel", author = "Andreas K. Kostopoulos and Athanassios D. Katsenis and Jamie M. Frost and Vadim G. Kessler and Euan K. Brechin and Giannis S. Papaefstathiou", journal = "Chem. Commun.", year = "2014", volume = "50", number = "95", pages = "15002--15005", publisher = "Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)", doi = "10.1039/c4cc07582j", abstract = "A [Cu-16(II)] wheel was isolated serendipitously from the reaction of acetylacetone dioxime with copper(II) chloride and lanthanide ions in a reaction initially designed to produce heterometallic 3d-4f cages. The ligand has been transformed in situ to three different forms, all found within the [Cu-16] wheel, with the original ligand completely absent." }