The marriage of heterocyclic compounds with ferrocene has proven to be an extremely fruitful field research. In fact, in the last years, several ferrocene-embedded have been reported. some cases, synergistic combination properties and metallacyclic motifs provides fused systems interesting applications. This Review summarizes major advances synthesis ferrocene-fused nitrogen their applications,...

A new ferrocene derivative (1-[(4-amino) phenylethynyl]ferrocene, Fc-NH(2)) was synthesized for the first time. The ferrocene derivative molecule contained the phenylethynyl skeleton, ferrocene and amino groups with excellent electrochemical properties. The graphene/Fc-NH(2) nanocomposite was prepared by mixing graphene solution and Fc-NH(2) solution in one pot and the nanocomposite was utilize...

Numerous reports have focused on ferrocene-terminated electroactive self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) on a flat Au surface but only a few on ferrocene SAMs on Au colloid. In this paper, we employ 4-ferrocene thiophenol as a novel capping agent to produce electroactive gold nanoparticles in consideration of the peculiar pi-conjugated structure. Transmission electron microscopy shows the narrow-di...

The discovery of ferrocene in 1951 sparked off a truly remarkable interdisciplinary research activity. Since then ferrocene and its derivatives have been immensely exploited for their potential applications in diverse fields such as homogeneous catalysis, organic synthesis, supramolecular chemistry, biosensors, medicinal chemistry and materials science. It is now well established that ferrocene...

Combining ferrocene and iodine results in enhanced thermoelectrochemical (or thermogalvanic) waste heat harvesting abilities, for both the Seebeck coefficient and the overall power output. All systems displayed a mixture of ferrocene, ferrocenium, iodine and triiodide. The observed enhancement correlates with lower electron-density on the ferrocene; the synergistic improvement observed for mixt...

A series of arene–ruthenium complexes of the general formula [RuCl2{g-C6H5(CH2)2R}L] with R1⁄4OH, CH2OH, OC(O)Fc, CH2OC(O)Fc (Fc1⁄4 ferrocenyl) and L1⁄4PPh3, (diphenylphosphino)ferrocene, or bridging 1,10-bis(diphenylphosphino)ferrocene, have been synthesized. Two synthetic pathways have been used for these ferrocene-modified arene–ruthenium complexes: (a) esterification of ferrocene carboxylic...

The ferrocene-pyrylium dyad behaves as a selective redox and colorimetric chemodosimeter for CN(-) and HS(-) anions, exhibiting a clear perturbation in the redox potential of the ferrocene unit and in the absorption band, in the presence of these anions.

Ferrocene-containing amidopyridine receptors bind carboxylic acids and the amino acid phenylalanine in acetonitrile via a novel proton transfer process that enables guests to be electrochemically sensed by positive shifts in the ferrocene-centred redox potentials.