Bis-[3]Ferrocenophanes with Central >E-E'< Bonds (E, E'=P, SiH): Preparation, Properties, and Thermal Activation

Stefan Isenberg; Stefan Weller; Denis Kargin; Srećko Valić; Brigitte Schwederski; Zsolt Kelemen; Clemens Bruhn; Kristijan Krekić; Martin Maurer; Christoph M Feil; Martin Nieger; Dietrich Gudat; László Nyulászi; Rudolf Pietschnig

doi:10.1002/open.201900279

Bis-[3]Ferrocenophanes with Central >E-E'< Bonds (E, E'=P, SiH): Preparation, Properties, and Thermal Activation

ChemistryOpen. 2019 Oct 1;8(10):1224. doi: 10.1002/open.201900279. eCollection 2019 Oct.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Institute for Chemistry and CINSaT University of Kassel Heinrich Plett-Straße 40 34132 Kassel Germany.
² Institute for Inorganic Chemistry University of Stuttgart Pfaffenwaldring 55 70550 Stuttgart Germany.
³ Ruđer Bošković Institute Bijenička cesta 54 10000 Zagreb Croatia.
⁴ Department of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry and MTA-BME Computation Driven Chemistry Research Group Budapest University of Technology and Economics Szent Gellért tér 4 1111 Budapest Hungary.
⁵ Department of Chemistry University of Helsinki, P.O Box 55 Helsinki 00014 Finland.

Abstract

Invited for this month's cover picture are the groups of Professors Rudolf Pietschnig at the University of Kassel, Professor Dietrich Gudat at the University of Stuttgart and Professor László Nyulászi at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. The cover picture shows the thermally induced homolytic cleavage of the central P-P bond in a phosphorus-rich bis-ferrocenophane furnishing P-centered radicals (as evidenced by the computed spin-density highlighted in blue). The central P₆ unit in the title compound is a structural analog of the connecting unit in Hittorf's violet phosphorus, which links the orthogonally arranged tubular entities. A portrait of the German physicist Johann Wilhelm Hittorf is included. Read the full text of their Full Paper at 10.1002/open.201900182.