Why is ferrocene so exceptional?

D Astruc - European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The appearance of ferrocene in the middle of the 20th century has revolutionized
organometallic chemistry and is now providing applications in areas as varied and …

Metallopolymers: New multifunctional materials

GR Whittell, I Manners - Advanced Materials, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Since the mid 1990s soluble, well‐characterized high molecular weight metal‐containing
and metallosupramolecular polymers have become readily available for the first time, even …

Synthesis of planar chiral ferrocenes via enantioselective remote C–H activation

L Zhou, HG Cheng, L Li, K Wu, J Hou, C Jiao… - Nature Chemistry, 2023 - nature.com
Planar chiral ferrocenes are widely studied structures in asymmetric catalysis, materials
science and medicinal chemistry. Although synthetic methods for 1, 2-disubstituted planar …

Metallocenyl dendrimers and their applications in molecular electronics, sensing, and catalysis

D Astruc, C Ornelas, J Ruiz - Accounts of chemical research, 2008 - ACS Publications
We have investigated the movement of electrons around the peripheries of dendrimers and
between their redox termini and electrodes through studies of the electrochemistry of …

Giant dendritic molecular electrochrome batteries with ferrocenyl and pentamethylferrocenyl termini

C Ornelas, J Ruiz, C Belin, D Astruc - Journal of the American …, 2009 - ACS Publications
Giant redox dendrimers were synthesized with ferrocenyl and pentamethylferrocenyl termini
up to a theoretical number of 39 tethers (seventh generation). Lengthening of the tethers …

Enantioselective assembly of ferrocenes with axial and planar chiralities via palladium/chiral norbornene cooperative catalysis

J Ye, L Li, Y You, C Jiao, Z Cui, Y Zhang, S Jia, H Cong… - JACS Au, 2023 - ACS Publications
The preparation of ferrocenes with both axial and planar chiralities poses a considerable
challenge. Herein, we report a strategy for the construction of both axial and planar …

Synthetic methodologies and properties of organometallic and coordination macromolecules

AS Abd-El-Aziz, PO Shipman, BN Boden… - Progress in Polymer …, 2010 - Elsevier
This review is designed to highlight the recent advances in the field of organometallic and
coordination macromolecules. It is organized by the particular properties that the …

[HTML][HTML] Transition metal-containing macromolecules: En route to new functional materials

AS Abd-El-Aziz, EA Strohm - Polymer, 2012 - Elsevier
Recent development in the field of organometallic and coordination polymers based on
transition metals, particularly the methods and degree of polymerization, the nature of …

Transfer, Amplification, and Inversion of Helical Chirality Mediated by Concerted Interactions of C3-Supramolecular Dendrimers

M Peterca, MR Imam, CH Ahn… - Journal of the …, 2011 - ACS Publications
The synthesis, structural, and retrostructural analysis of two libraries containing 16 first and
second generation C 3-symmetric self-assembling dendrimers based on dendrons …

Functional chirality: From small molecules to supramolecular assemblies

A Adawy - Symmetry, 2022 - mdpi.com
Many structures in nature look symmetric, but this is not completely accurate, because
absolute symmetry is close to death. Chirality (handedness) is one form of living asymmetry …