Syntheses,Crystal Structures,and Electro-chemical Properties of Three Anhydrides Based on Ferrocenecarboxylic Acid and Dehydroabietic Acid

Three title compounds(3~5) have been successfully synthesized via interactive reactions between ferrocenecarboxylic and dehydroabietic acids, which can be characterized by FT-IR, elemental analysis, ESI-MS, and NMR spectroscopy. The crystal structures of compounds 4 and 5 can be determined by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. Compound 4 is of orthorhombic system, space group P212121 with a = 7.7010(5), b = 11.7542(9), c = 28.3173(18) ?, Z = 4, V = 2563.3(3) ?~3, Mr = 512.45, Dc = 1.328 g/cm^-1, S = 1.041, μ = 0.619 mm^-1, F(000) = 1088, the final R = 0.0396 and wR = 0.0945 for 4394 observed reflections(I > 2σ(I)). Compound 5 crystallizes in orthorhombic system, space group P21212 as well, with parameters of a = 11.9875(15), b = 19.651(2), c = 7.2163(9) ?, Z = 2, V = 1699.9(3) ?~3, Mr = 582.83, Dc = 1.139 g/cm^-1, S = 1.091, μ = 0.070 mm^-1, F(000) = 636, the final R = 0.0653 and wR = 0.0719 for 1518 observed reflections(I > 2σ(I)). Additionally, electrochemical properties of compounds 3 and 4 have been investigated by the cyclic and differential pulse voltammogram techniques.