Supansa ChimjarnRungthip KunthomPrapassorn ChancharoneRapheepraew SodkhomkhumPreeyanuch SangtrirutnugulVuthichai ErvithayasupornMahidol University2018-11-092018-11-092014-11-24Dalton Transactions. Vol.44, No.3 (2014), 916-91914779234147792262-s2.0-84919396614https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/20.500.14594/33607© The Royal Society of Chemistry 2015. Organic-inorganic hybrid nano-building blocks of aromatic nitro-, aldehyde-, and bromo-functionalized polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxanes were easily prepared through nucleophilic substitutions, starting from the reactions between octakis(3-chloropropyl)octasilsesquioxane and phenoxide derivatives. These phenoxide anions not only supply the substitution functions to a silsesquioxane cage, but can also induce a cage-rearrangement leading to the formation of octa-, deca-, and dodecahedral silsesquioxane cages. This journal isMahidol UniversityChemistryArticleSCOPUS10.1039/c4dt02941k