Cover Picture: ZAAC ‐ Journal of Inorganic and General Chemistry 3‐4/2015

Although monolithioferrocene is a highly versatile and often employed organometallic starting material for a variety of ferrocenyl complexes applied in catalysis, in bioorganometallic chemistry and in materials chemistry its solid state structure remained elusive so far. The cover picture shows the molecular structure of the tetrahydrofuran adduct of monolithioferrocene as obtained by single crystal X‐ray diffraction methods. The thf adduct forms a four‐membered Li 2 C 2 ring. The lithium cations complete their fourfold coordination by two thf molecules. More details are discussed in the Short Communication by Christoph Förster and Katja Heinze on page 517ff.