Ferrocene-driven single-chain polymer compaction

Sebastian Gillhuber; Joshua O Holloway; Hendrik Frisch; Florian Feist; Florian Weigend; Christopher Barner-Kowollik; Peter W Roesky

doi:10.1039/d3cc00736g

Ferrocene-driven single-chain polymer compaction

Chem Commun (Camb). 2023 Apr 13;59(31):4672-4675. doi: 10.1039/d3cc00736g.

Authors

Sebastian Gillhuber^{1

2

3}, Joshua O Holloway^{2

3}, Hendrik Frisch^{2

3}, Florian Feist⁴, Florian Weigend⁵, Christopher Barner-Kowollik^{2

3

4}, Peter W Roesky¹

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Engesserstraße 15, Karlsruhe 76131, Germany. roesky@kit.edu.
² School of Chemistry and Physics, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), 2 George Street, Brisbane QLD 4000, Australia. christopher.barnerkowollik@qut.edu.au.
³ Centre for Materials Science, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), 2 George Street, Brisbane QLD 4000, Australia.
⁴ Institute of Nanotechnology (INT), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Platz 1, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen 76344, Germany. christopher.barner-kowollik@kit.edu.
⁵ Fachbereich Chemie, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Hans-Meerwein-Straße 4, Marburg 35043, Germany.

PMID: 36995010
DOI: 10.1039/d3cc00736g

Abstract

We introduce single-chain nanoparticles (SCNPs) exclusively folded by covalently bonded ferrocene units. Specifially, we demonstrate the ability of 2-ferrocenyl-1,10-phenanthroline to fuse single-chain collapse with the concomitant introduction of a donor functionality allowing the installation of a Pd-catalytic site, affording the first heterobimetallic ferrocene-functionalized SCNP.