2641 The chemistry of octahedral rhenium cluster com plexes with the {Re 6 Q 8 } 2+ cores (Q = S, Se, Te) is being vigorously developed [1][2][3][4][5][6][7]. Some complexes obtained from elements by high temperature ampoule synthesis, for example, Re 6 Q 8 X 2 (Q = S, Se; X = Cl, Br) [8][9][10][11] or Re 6 Te 15 [12], are characterized by cova lent bonding between the clusters, i.e., they have poly meric structure. However, of most interest are the molecular and ionic cluster complexes that can be generally described as [{Re 6 Q 8 }L 6 ] n , where L is an inorganic or organic ligand [13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21]. The interest in these complexes is due to their properties such as sol ubility, high stability against thermal and chemical treatments, the possibility of variation and modifica tion of the ligand environment and redox transforma tions, long lived luminescence in the solid state and in solutions, and so on. In addition, when ligands (L) contain free donor atoms, the complexes [{Re 6 Q 8 }L 6 ] n can be used as nano sized building blocks for the syn thesis of coordination polymers with different metal cations. This feature was clearly demonstrated, for example, in a series of works describing the cyano bridged polymers of different dimensionality com posed of anionic chalcocyanide complexes [Re 6 Q 8 (CN) 6 ] 4-/3-(Q = S, Se, Te) and various transi tion metal cations [22][23][24][25][26][27].We proposed an original method for the synthesis of chalcohydroxo complexes [Re 6 Q 8 (OH) 6 ] 4-(Q = S, Se) consisting in the reaction of known polymeric complexes Re 6 Q 8 X 2 (Q = S, Se; X = Cl, Br) with mol 1 Dedicated to Professor Vladimir Fedorov on the occasion of his 75th birthday. ten KOH or CsOH [28, 29]. These complexes proved to be convenient precursors for ligand exchange reac tions, because apical OH ligands are replaced rather easily by other ligands, for example, by carboxylate anions [30, 31]. In addition, it was shown that the complexes [Re 6 Q 8 (OH) 6 ] 4-are coordinated to alka line earth metal cations to give polymeric structures [32]. The question arises of whether polymers of this type could be obtained based on the [Re 6 Q 8 (OH) 6 ] 4-anions and transition metal cations similarly to the case of rhenium chalcocyanide cluster complexes [22, 23, 26]. This study deals with the reactions of the anionic cluster complexes [Re 6 Q 8 (OH) 6 ] 4-(Q = S, Se) with the cationic complexes [M(Еn) 2 ] 2+ (M = Ni, Cu) in aqueous solutions. Three new compounds, [Ni(H 2 O) 2 (Еn) 2 ][{Ni(Еn) 2 }Re 6 S 8 (OH) 6 ] ⋅ 7H 2 O (I), [{Cu(En) 2 }Re 6 S 8 (H 2 O) 2 (OH) 4 ] · 4H 2 O (II), and [Ni(H 2 O) 2 (En) 2 ] 0.5 [Re 6 Se 8 (H 2 O) 3 (OH) 3 ] ⋅ 10H 2 O (III), were thus obtained and structurally characterized. EXPERIMENTAL The initial complexes K 4 [Re 6 Q 8 (OH) 6 ] ⋅ 8H 2 O were prepared by a reported procedure [28]. The ratio of heavy elements was determined by energy dispersive X ray analysis (EDAX) using a JSM 6700F raster electron microscope. The elemental analysis for C, H, N, and S was carried out on...