Ferrocene history

Ferrates, tris(oxalato)-photoreduction, 471 Ferredoxins, 142 redox potentials, 513 Ferri cyanides oxidation by, 504 redox couples, 512 Ferritin structure, 137 Ferrocene history, 3 stereochemistry nomenclature, 131 Ferrocene, l-acetyl-2-methyl-nomenclature, 131 Ferroin... 

P. Laszlo, R. Hoffmann, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl. 39, 123 (2000). Ferrocene Ironclad History or Rashomon Tale ... 

G. Wilkinson, The Iron Sandwich. A Recollection of the First Four Months, . 1. Organomet. Chem., 1975,100, 273. This article is a nice account of the history of the discovery of ferrocene. Wilkinson, along with E. O. Fischer, won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his pioneering work on sandwich compounds. 

For a series of more modem articles by several authors on the history of the early research on ferrocene and other metallocenes, see /. Organomet. Chem., 2001, 637-639, 3-26. See also P. Laszlo and R. Hoffmann, Ferrocene Ironclad History or Rashomon Tale, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2000,39,123, for a short, interesting article on the discovery of the stmcture of ferrocene. 

Organometallic polymers, in contrast to coordination polymers, have metal-to-carbon bonds. They are the topic of this chapter. Three seminal events provided the foundation for the field of organometallic polymers to develop. The landmark discovery of ferrocene by Kealy and Pauson in 1951 marked the first organometallic compound.11 This was quickly followed by the full elucidation of its structure and an understanding of its reactivity by Wilkinson, Rosenblum, Whiting, and Woodward.12,13 This history was celebrated in a 2001 feature article in Chemical and Engineering News 4 Finally, the first polymerization of an organometallic compound was reported by Arimoto and Haven at Dupont Co. in 1955.15,16 Vinylferrocene 1... 

Hoffmann, Roald, and Pierre Laszlo. Ferrocene Ironclad History or Rashomon Tale Angewandte Chemie International Edition 39 (2000) 123-4. This brief essay attempts to sort out the claims for priority in the discovery of ferrocene. 

The coinage of a medal (Eig. 1) on the occasion of the XXV ICOMC was another celebratory initiative, honoring the places where all these conferences have been held, and relevant landmarks in the history of this science the ferrocene molecule (the conference logo) and the Chatt-Dewar-Duncanson model of ethylene coordination. 

The review begins with a selective summary of the history of organome-taUic and reductive rare-earth chemistry as an introduction to bimetallic lanthanide complexes bridged by ligands derived from arenes and to complexes of ferrocene-based diamide ligands, a major subtheme in the chapter. Detailed discussions then follow on complexes derived from fused rings and their reactivity with phosphorus and on complexes derived from biphenyl and stilbene as substrates, with emphasis on ferrocene-based diamide complexes. 

Look up the history of the discovery of ferrocene and write a chemical reaction for its synthesis. 

Many discoveries in synthesis have their own anecdotal histories, one of which—the first synthesis of an organometallic metallocene, ferrocene— is mentioned here. In 1951, the newly appointed Assistant Professor Peter L. Panson, working with an nndergraduate stndent, Thomas J. Kealy, attempted to oxidatively couple cyclopentadienyl magnesium bromide with ferric chloride (52,53). The goal was to prepare fulvalene to test the then recent proposal (54) that it would display aromatic character. Instead, a very stable orange solid was produced, which proved to be the famous ferrocene, about whose structure determination much has been written (Figure 6, (55,56,57)). 

Laszlo P, Hoffmann R (2000). Ferrocene ironclad history or Rashomon tale Angew Chem IntEd 39 123-124... 

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