Decamethyl ferrocene

Finally, a group of hypercoordinated silicon compounds, the decamethyl silicocenes, in which the formal silicon coordination number is ten, is worthy of mention in connection with this chapter. These analogs of ferrocene have been studied extensively232, and are described in detail in Jutzi s chapter in this volume. 

In the following, the outline of the redox reaction between O2 in W and decamethyl-ferrocene in O catalysed by flavin mononucleotide (FMN) in W evolving CO2, which was elucidated by applying VCTIES, will be introduced [12,13]. The selective ion transfer controlled by the redox reaction will also be discussed. The respiration mimetic reactions such as the redox reactions between -nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide and ascorbic acid or oxygen in W and quinone derivatives or hydroquinone derivatives, respectively, were also investigated with the aid of VCTIES [14,15], though they are not introduced here. 

Thapar R. and Rajeshwar K. (1982), Photoelectrochemical oxidation of aromatic hydrocarbons and decamethyl ferrocene at the n-GaAs/room temperature molten salt electrolyte interface , J. Electrochem. Soc. 129, 560-565. 

In acetonitrile, it is likely that the 16 e cation W(CO)3Cp+ would react further (see later discussion) to form the 18 e cation W(MeCN)(CO)3Cp +. It is not clear if this occurs as part of reaction 10.36 or rapidly after it. In contrast, with decamethyl, ferrocene reduction was found either not to occur or to proceed on an extremely slow timescale ... 

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