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In the last few years we have developed a versatile procedure for the
convenient synthesis of numerous tetranuclear chelate complexes on the
basis of spontaneous self-assembly. The exact structure of the adaman
tanoid cage compounds was defined by X-ray analysis and their electroc
hemistry was studied by cyclic voltammetry. By using the complexes as
metals and complexes as ligands synthetic strategy, we were able to sy
nthesize 3D-, 2D-, and 1D-coordination polymers, respectively, which c
ould be characterized unequivocally by X-ray structure analyses.