TY - JOUR TI - Circular serendipity: in situ ligand transformation for the self-assembly of an hexadecametallic [CuII16] wheel AU - Andreas K. Kostopoulos AU - Athanassios D. Katsenis AU - Jamie M. Frost AU - Vadim G. Kessler AU - Euan K. Brechin AU - Giannis S. Papaefstathiou JO - Chem. Commun. PY - 2014 VL - 50 TODO - 95 SP - 15002--15005 PB - Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) SN - null TODO - 10.1039/c4cc07582j TODO - null TODO - 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. ER -