An unusual skeletal rearrangement of piperazine into ethylenediamine has been observed for the first time as a result of an attempt to synthesize a piperazine-linked metal−organic framework (MOF) using cage Cu(II),Na-phenylsilsequixane as a potential building block. Instead of the expected "metallasilsesquioxane-based MOF", a Cu 6 complex 1 coordinated both by silsesquioxane and ethylenediamine ligands was isolated. An effort to reproduce this result via direct interaction of Cu-phenylsilsequioxane and ethylenediamine surprisingly afforded two other types of complexes, copper−sodium 2 and copper 3 ionic products. Cationic components in both products 2 and 3 are represented by (i) copper and sodium ions (in the case of 2) or (ii) copper ions exclusively (in the case of 3) coordinated by ethylenediamine ligands. Both complexes 2 and 3 include Si 6 -based condensed silsesquioxane fragments serving as anionic components of the products. Symptomatically, the types of the Si 6 -frameworks in 2 and 3 are drastically different. More specifically, the Si 6 unit in 2 is an unprecedented distorted silsesquioxane skeleton consisting of two condensed tetramembered rings. Structural features of compounds 1−3 were established by single crystal X-ray diffraction. Compound 2 was found to catalyze the oxidation of cyclohexane to cyclohexanol and cyclohexanone with H 2 O 2 (a mixture of these products was obtained after adding PPh 3 to the reaction solution) as well as the transformation of cyclohexanol to cyclohexanone under the action of tert-butyl hydroperoxide.Article pubs.acs.org/IC