Nanometer-sized cavities are present in oligonuclear coordination compounds formed in molecular self-assembly processes from C(3)-symmetric ligands and appropriate metal complex fragments. The structures obtained can be described as basic polyhedra such as tetrahedron, hexahedron, or octahedron (see picture).
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Markus Albrecht (1999) studied this question.