“…[16] ; part IV: ref. [17] [a] Chemistry M313 40 (L) 6 · 8dmso·10dmf, in which there are two sets of nickel atoms, one disposed at the corners of a cube (Ni 8 ), the other (Ni 24 ) at the vertices of a cuboctahedron (the Ni 8 vertices at the centres of the hexagonal faces); the hydroxy groups comprise two sets: one, (OH) 24 , disposed outside the spheroidal shell of nickel atoms, the other, (OH) 16 , disordered within, the thiacalixarene ligands L 6 with only partial success in terms of obtaining crystalline materials suitable for diffraction studies. While there is evidence, elaborated on in the associated present reports [16,17] of more general thiacalixarene coordination chemistry, that the nature of the complex which crystallises from a given synthetic mixture may be subject to somewhat capricious influences, other recent work [5b,12,13] has shown that solvothermal syntheses appear to have good reproducibility and that this method may enable access to a more complete definition of at least the solid state coordination chemistry of transition-metal ion complexes of the thiacalixarene.…”