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An Iron Wheel on a Tin Drum: A Novel Assembly of a Hexaferrocene Unit on a Tin–Oxygen Cluster
Author(s) -
Chandrasekhar Vadapalli,
Nagendran Selvarajan,
Bansal Sachin,
Kozee Michael A.,
Powell Douglas R.
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1521-3773(20000515)39:10<1833::aid-anie1833>3.0.co;2-3
Subject(s) - tin , yield (engineering) , ferrocene , cluster (spacecraft) , oxygen , chemistry , crystal structure , materials science , chemical engineering , crystallography , metallurgy , electrochemistry , organic chemistry , electrode , computer science , engineering , programming language
Based on reactions known in organotin chemistry , the robust hexaferrocene assembly [{BuSn(O)OC(O)Fc} 6 ] is obtained in quantitative yield by the reaction of two commercially available reactants. The X‐ray crystal structure (see picture) shows a symmetric giant wheel arrangement of the ferrocene units attached in a cyclic manner to a central drumlike stannoxane core. Cyclic voltammetric studies show a single quasireversible oxidation peak.