Аннотация:Within the sweeping research on the design of newcoordination polymers and related metal−organic architectures,the use of silsesquioxane derivatives as important organosiliconbuilding blocks has been poorly explored, despite a number ofunique structural and functional characteristics of the resultingproducts. The present study thus describes an extended series(eight examples) of heterometallic Cu4 Cs4 and Cu 4Rb4 coordina-tion polymers with the common formula [(PhSiO 1.5 )12 (CuO)4-(AO0.5) 4(Solv)x]n·nSolv (A is Cs or Rb; Solv refers to ligands and/or solvate molecules including H 2O, EtOH, BuOH, DMF, andDMSO in various combinations), which are based on cagelikecoppersilsesquioxanes as nontrivial secondary building units. Theconcept of supramolecular design was implemented in a straightforward way by the assembly of coppersilsesquioxane cages usinglarge and coordination-versatile cesium or rubidium cations. The structures of all products were established by single-crystal X-raydiffraction studies mainly using synchrotron radiation. The resulting Cu 4Cs4 - and Cu 4Rb4 -silsesquioxanes exhibit an extracagelocation of the alkali-metal cations, which enables the interconnectivity of neighboring cages into 1D, 2D, or 3D coordinationpolymer architectures. The unique feature of such architectures is a realization of metallocene Cs···π (Rb···π) joints, providing tightlyconnected nonporous coordination polymers. A topological classification of cages and coordination polymer networks wasperformed. Some of the obtained compounds also represent the first examples of Rb-containing silsesquioxanes. The selectedproducts were also tested as homogeneous catalysts in the oxidation and hydrocarboxylation of C 5−C 8 cycloalkanes. This studyextends the structural types of heterometallic silsesquioxane cages that can be efficiently applied to the design of functionalcoordination polymers.