Near-Infrared Luminescence Spectroscopy of Nickelocene Doped into Single Crystals of Ruthenocene

Single crystals of ruthenocene doped with nickelocene show a near-infrared luminescence band with a maximum at 13 100 cm(-1) and a width of 1100 cm(-1) at 5 K in addition to the ruthenocene luminescence. The band is symmetric and attributed to nickelocene on the basis of a comparison of luminescence and absorption spectra. Energy transfer from the ruthenocene host enhances the nickelocene luminescence intensity at temperatures between 50 and 100 K. An activation barrier of 306(18) cm(-1) is determined from luminescence decay measurements. The Stokes shift of 2200 cm(-1) and the large change of 0.16 ? in nickel-cyclopentadienyl distance in the emitting state confirm the assignment as (3)E(1g), arising from an electron configuration different from that of the ground state. The comparison of experimental and calculated spectra shows that only low-energy vibrational modes contribute to the luminescence band shape, in contrast to the case of cobaltocene doped in the same host lattice, where a distortion along a high-frequency, ligand-centered mode affects the luminescence band shape.     

The barrier to internal rotation in metallocenes

It has been shown by calculation that the eclipsed forms of ferrocene and ruthenocene are more stable than their staggered forms. The main contribution to the energy difference is the induction energy of the metal in the potential field of the rings. Direct ring-ring electrostatic energy also favours the eclipsed forms by a small amount. The calculated barrier in ferrocene is in good agreement with an experimental estimate from electron diffraction.     

Triplet state quenching by ruthenocene

Ruthenocene quenches triplet states of organic molecules with energies greater than 24000 cm^?1 in benzene solution at a diffusion controlled rate , (6 ± 1) × 10⁹ dm³ mol^?1 s^?1. For triplets with energies less than this the efficiency of quenching is dependent on the energy of the triplet state being quenched but drops off less acutely than expected for endothermic energy transfer following the Arrhenius equation. This is in agreement with the lowest triplet state of ruthenocene being geometrically distorted as expected from the previously observed large Stokes shift between absorption to and emission from its lowest triplet state. Similarities to ferrocene quenching of triplet states are discussed. Quenching of the triplet state of benzil by ruthenocene does not fall on the smooth curve which exists between the quenching rate constants k_q and the energy of the triplet state being quenched. Queching of triplet benzil by ruthenocene is therefore attributed to favourable charge-transfer interactions, also in this case the behaviour is analogous to quenching of triplet methylene-blue by ferrocene where at least a proportion of electron transfer following quenching has been previously established.     

Molecular dynamics study of ferrocene topology under various temperatures

We present the first quantum mechanical Atom-Centered Density-Matrix Propagation molecular dynamic (MD) study to investigate ferrocene (Fc) conformation in gas phase. The MD simulations were performed at several temperatures (7, 18, 80, 120, 180, 293, and 500 K) for a period of 10 ps. It is found that, at very low temperatures (≤18 K), ferrocene prefers eclipsed-like conformation. At higher temperatures (>18 K), the cyclopentadienyl rings (Cp) of ferrocene exhibit apparent fluxional rotations, leading to configurations with the rotational angle δ distributing within a range of 0° (eclipsed) to 18° (approximately half of 36° for the staggered conformation), accompanied by the cyclopentadienyl ring tilt up to approximately 12° at 500 K. The simulated mean inferred (IR) spectrum of ferrocene at 7 K is clearly dominant by a doublet-splitting band of eclipsed-like Fc features in the region of 400 to 600 cm⁻¹, in agreement with previous IR studies. The animation obtained from the MD simulations indicates that, at room temperature, the Fe-C distances in ferrocene are in fact not strictly congruent but 2:2:1-fold.     

茂型金属复合催化丙烯酸酯聚合物多孔材料的研究

以丙烯酸酯类单体、聚合物树脂粉料为主要原料,通过自制乳化剂的水乳液模板法和茂型金属-N,N-二甲基苯胺-过氧化物组成的复合氧化―还原引发体系,混合形成可室温快速聚合成型得到丙烯酸酯聚合物多孔材料的可浇注的悬浮乳液。研究了初始混合温度、搅拌速度和时间对操作工艺的影响和聚合固化过程中的热效应,讨论了聚合成孔机理、水和惰性树脂粉料对多孔材料孔隙和强度的影响、多孔材料的透气透水性能。结果表明,二茂铁比二茂钴、二茂镍、二茂钌等均具有更快的引发速率和单体转化率,在完全活性树脂粉料下成型的多孔材料可具有30 MPa以上抗压强度和40%以上的压缩形变,优异的透气透水性,开孔孔隙率达20%(V/V)以上;并且随着惰性树脂粉料的添加,多孔材料强度韧性和开孔孔隙率明显下降;而随着水用量的增加,开孔材料孔隙率增加,强度下降。     

Redetermination of the cobaltocene crystal structure at 100 K and 297 K: Comparison with ferrocene and nickelocene

The molecular and crystal structures of the monoclinic modification of cobaltocene Cp₂Co (P2₁/n, Z=2) was determined at 100 K and 297 K with new sets of X-ray diffraction data (MoK radiation, 3995 and 6534 reflections, refinement toR = 0.026 and 0.030 using 1061 and 1299 independent observable reflections, respectively). At 297 K the structure is disordered (similar to the isomorphous ferrocene and nickelocene) with two distinct orientations of the ring, differing in occupancy factors (80% and 20%) and by a rotation angle in the ring plane of approximately 34°. Just as for nickelocene but in contrast to ferrocene, no sharp phase transition was found on cooling Cp₂Co to 100 K, but an essential ordering of the Cp-ring position was detected with a decrease of the contribution of the second minor orientation to nearly 10%. On the basis of a careful analysis of the molecular geometry, crystal packing, and anisotropic atomic displacement parameters, a dynamic temperature-dependent nature of the disorder in Cp₂Co is assumed.     

Adsorption of Metallocenes on Silica

The adsorption of the metallocenes ferrocene, doubly deuterated ferrocene, cymantrene and nickelocene, as well as molybdenum hexacarbonyl, proceeds in the absence of a solvent. Large single pieces of silica gel were placed in contact with the solid metallocenes and the adsorption process was visualized on a macroscopic scale and the maximal loadings were determined. ¹H, ²H, and ¹³C solid‐state NMR studies confirmed fast isotropic reorientation of the surface‐adsorbed metallocene molecules within the pores of the silica. All prevalent anisotropic solid‐state interactions were averaged out. The solid diamagnetic and paramagnetic materials were amenable to measurements with a standard solution NMR instrument. All metallocenes adsorbed in a monolayer. In the case of ferrocene and cymantrene, different ¹³C MAS signals were obtained for the cyclopentadienyl ring carbon nuclei and assigned to one ring interacting with the surface and one ring pointing away from it. The relative adsorption strengths of ferrocene on different silica supports, nanotubes, and activated carbon were determined by a novel straightforward method recording the desorption temperature. The reversibility of adsorption has been demonstrated by competition experiments using ferrocene, doubly deuterated ferrocene, and cymantrene. Adsorbed nickelocene could be reduced to small Ni⁰ aggregates on the surface and the catalytic activity of the resulting material for the cyclotrimerization of phenylacetylene was proven.     

Protonation of ferrocene,ruthenocene, and osmocene: a density functional study

Protonated forms of the ferrocene, ruthenocene, and osmocene molecules in the gas phase were calculated using the density functional approach with the Becke—Lee—Young—Parr functional. The proton affinity energies of ferrocene, ruthenocene, and osmocene were estimated at 214.2, 220.3, and 229.7 kcal mol^–1, respectively. The addition of a proton to carbon atoms of the cyclopentadienyl ring in the ferrocene molecule and to the metal atom in the ruthenocene and osmocene molecules is more energetically favorable. No minimum corresponding to ring protonation was located on the potential energy surface of protonated osmocene. The C—H _endo bond in the ring-protonated [C₁₀H₁₁M]⁺ (M = Fe, Ru) cations is involved in agostic interaction with the metal atom. Transition states of interconversions between the ring-protonated and metal-protonated forms were identified. A specific group of protonated forms of the ferrocene and ruthenocene molecules includes four types of structures, viz., ring-protonated (1a,b) and metal-protonated (2a,b) structures, transition states of the 1 2 interconversion (3a,b), as well as ring-protonated structures with the cyclopentadiene ring folded along the C(2)—C(5) line so that the M—H _endo interaction is virtually negligible. The latter structures are required for [1,5]-sigmatropic shift of the exo-hydrogen atom in the Cp ring to occur. The results obtained were used for the interpretation of the available schemes of electrophilic substitution reactions in metallocenes and of the sigmatropic shift mechanisms.     

Palladium-catalyzed asymmetric allylic alkylation with an enamine as the nucleophilic reagent

An enamine can serve as a good nucleophile for palladium-catalyzed asymmetric allylic alkylation, avoiding the use of an unstablilized ketone enolate formed by strong bases. In the presence of a palladium complex of chiral metallocene-based phosphino-oxazoline ligands, the reaction was carried out smoothly with high catalytic activity and excellent enantioselectivity. Different distances between the two Cp rings of ferrocene and ruthenocene affected the catalytic behavior in the reaction. Furthermore, high catalytic activity and good enantioselectivity were also afforded by the ferrocene-based diphosphine ligands with only planar chirality.     

Hot atom reactions in neutron irradiated solid iron group metallocenes

Investigation of the hot reactions of the recoil metal nuclides in neutron irradiated solid ferrocene, ruthenocene and osmoscene shows that the retention decreases from ferrocene to osmocene. This observation is ascribed to the effects of recoil energy and the size of the hot zone. The large isotope effect observed between osmium isotopes and between ruthenium isotopes are explained as resulting from the effect of the Auger ionisation produced by internal conversion which takes place in Os-185 and Ru-97 to a greater degree than in their other isotopes. Irradiation of solid metallocenes diluted with an inert solid (silica) showed that the retention in ruthenocene is high and only slightly less than for the pure case whilst the retention of osmocene is very small and the retention of ferrocene is almost zero. The high retention in solid diluted ruthenocene was tentatively attributed to a combination of primary retention resulting from γ cancellation and uptake of recoil momentum by the solid lattice.     

Electronic effect of ferrocenyl,ruthenocenyl, and osmocenyl group as substituents

Conclusions According to the¹⁹F NMR spectra of the m- and p-fluorophenyl derivatives of ferrocene, ruthenocene, and osmocene, the inductive component successively increases and the resonance component of the electron-donor effect of the metallocenyl groups successively decreases with increase in the order number of the metal.Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 5, pp. 1170–1172, May, 1981.     

Photochemical properties of ferrocene,cobaltocene and nickelocene and their complexes with 2,2,2-trichloroethanol in liquid phase

Summary Photochemical changes in the solutions of ferrocene, cobaltocene, nickelocene and their complexes with 2,2,2-trichloroethanol exposed to near u.v. and argon laser (=514.5 nm) radiation were investigated. The solutions of cobaltocene, nickelocene and their complexes were found to undergo photolysis, whereas ferrocene solutions are not sensitive to this kind of irradiation and the ferrocene bound in a complex undergoes photooxidation to give the ferricenium cation. The activating effect of laser irradiation of ferrocene was revealed as a tendency to complex formation. The quantum yield of the investigated photoreactions, equilibrium constant of complex formation,K, and their molar extinction coefficients, _c, were determined.     

Sharing orbitals: ultrafast excited state deactivations with different outcomes in bucky ferrocenes and ruthenocenes

We report on the singlet ground and singlet/triplet excited-state features of a series of bucky ferrocenes, bucky ruthenocenes, and respective reference compounds. In the bucky ferrocene conjugates, intimate contacts between the fullerenes and ferrocenes result in appreciable ground-state interactions-suggesting a substantial shift of charge density from the electron donor (i.e., ferrocene) to the electron acceptor (i.e., fullerene). In contrast, no prominent charge-transfer features were observed for the bucky ruthenocene conjugates. An arsenal of experimental techniques, ranging from fluorescence (i.e., steady state and time-resolved) and pump probe experiments (i.e., femtosecond and nanoseconds) to pulse radiolysis, were employed to examine excited-state interactions. In the excited states, bucky ferrocene conjugates are dominated by rapid charge separation reactions (0.8 +/- 0.1 ps) to yield metastable radical ion pairs. The radical ion pair lifetimes vary between 27 and 39 ps. No charge separation was, however, found in the corresponding bucky ruthenocence. Instead, an intrinsically faster excited-state deactivation (approximately 200 ps) evolves from the heavier ruthenium center-relative to iron. This effect is further augmented by the unfavorably shifted oxidation potential in ruthenocene of about 0.61 V, which in ruthenocene (-deltaG(ET) = -0.26 eV), in contrast to ferrocene (-deltaG(ET) = 0.35 eV), renders charge separation thermodynamically unfeasible.     

Molecular motions and the structure ofβ-cyclodextrin inclusion complexes with ferrocene, [3]-ferrocenophane-1,3-dione and ruthenocene

Spin-lattice relaxation time measurements in laboratory and rotating frames as well as proton second moment analysis have been used to investigate molecular motions in -cyclodextrin (CD) and its solid inclusion complexes with the title organometallic compounds. Different dynamical processes have been identified in the host lattice along with high mobility of the ferrocene and ruthenocene guest molecules. The Arrhenius parameters of all motions were obtained. The assumption based on the second moment measurements was made about the axial structure of the ferrocene complex and the equatorial one of the ruthenocene complex at low temperatures. The bridged ferrocenophane molecule was shown to be rigid on the NMR time scale. The ternary inclusion complex of -CD with ruthenocene and iodine was also studied and no evidence of redox reactions was observed.     

Muon implantation of metallocenes: ferrocene

Muon Spin Relaxation and Avoided Level Crossing (ALC) measurements of ferrocene are reported. The main features observed are five high field resonances in the ALC spectrum at about 3.26, 2.44, 2.04, 1.19 and 1.17 T, for the low-temperature phase at 18 K. The high-temperature phase at 295 K shows that only the last feature shifted down to about 0.49 T and a muon spin relaxation peak at about 0.106 T which approaches zero field when reaching the phase transition temperature of 164 K. A model involving three muoniated radicals, two with muonium addition to the cyclopentadienyl ring and the other to the metal atom, is postulated to rationalise these observations. A theoretical treatment involving spin-orbit coupling is found to be required to understand the Fe-Mu adduct, where an interesting interplay between the ferrocene ring dynamics and the spin-orbit coupling of the unpaired electron is shown to be important. The limiting temperature above which the full effect of spin-orbit interaction is observable in the muSR spectra of ferrocene was estimated to be 584 K. Correlation time for the ring rotation dynamics of the Fe-Mu radical at this temperature is 3.2 ps. Estimated electron g values and the changes in zero-field splittings for this temperature range are also reported.     

The study of molecular motions in substituted ferrocenes by means of NMR spectroscopy

The proton magnetic resonance spectra for ferrocene derivatives have been investigated in the solid state at a frequency of 27.5 MHz and at temperatures within the range 4.2–300 K. Evidence for re-orientation in various substituent groups and cyclopentadienyl rings has been deduced on the basis of the temperature dependence of the second moment of the PMR lines. The experimentally observed decrease in the second moment has been compared with the calculated contributions of different molecular groups to the second moment thus enabling an identification of these groups. In computing the second moment, account has been taken of both intra- and intermolecular dipole-dipole interactions. It is shown that the introduction of substituents into some ferrocene rings affects the magnitude of the re-orientation energy for both the substituted and unsubstituted rings. The change of the re-orientation energy of the substituted and unsubstituted rings in substituted ferrocenes with the structure and electronic properties of the substituents is discussed.     

Cyanation of a ruthenicinium salt

Conclusions In the presence of ferric chloride, ruthenocene undergoes direct cyanation with the formation of the previously undescribed ruthenocenecarbonitrile. Ruthenocene is far less active in this reaction than ferrocene.Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 4, pp. 935–937, April, 1967.     

Protein crystal structures with ferrocene and ruthenocene-based enzyme inhibitors

We have determined the protein X-ray crystal structures of four organometallic inhibitors in complex with their target enzyme carbonic anhydrase II. The barrel-shaped hydrophobic ferrocene and ruthenocene moieties have provided a structure-based avenue to better occupy the hydrophobic binding patch within the enzyme active site.     

Preparation of Pt/polypyrrole-ferrocene hydrogen peroxide sensitive electrode for the use as a biosensor

A polypyrrole electrode with ferrocene mediator is prepared and its sensitivity to hydrogen peroxide is investigated. The polypyrrole is deposited upon a 0.5 cm² Pt plate by the polymerization of pyrrole by scanning the electrode potential between 0.0 and 0.9 V at a scan rate of 50 mV/s. The platinum/polypyrrole-ferrocene (Pt/PPy-Fc) electrode is prepared by adding ferrocene to the coverage medium. The electrode’s sensitivity to hydrogen peroxide is investigated at room temperature using 0.025 M phosphate buffer at pH 7. The working potential is 0.7 V, the concentrations of pyrrole and ferrocene are 0.2 M and 10 mM. Polypyrrole was coated on the electrode surface within 26 cycles. Published in Russian in Elektrokhimiya, 2006, Vol. 42, No. 2, pp. 160–164. The text was submitted by the authors in English.     

Novel C2-symmetric planar chiral diphosphine ligands and their application in pd-catalyzed asymmetric allylic substitutions

Novel C(2)-symmetric diphosphine ligands possessing only the planar chirality of ruthenocene, 1,1'-bis(diphenylphosphino)-2,2'-disubstituted-ruthenocenes (4), were prepared. With this kind of ligands, excellent enantioselectivity and especially highly catalytic activity in palladium-catalyzed asymmetric allylic substitutions of rac-1,3-diphenyl-2-propenyl acetate (9) were observed, compared to their ferrocene analogues 1. Good enantioselectivity and highly catalytic activity were also obtained with 4 in palladium-catalyzed asymmetric allylic substitutions of cyclohexen-1-yl acetate (12). Further study on the effect of R in ester group on enantioselectivity of 4 showed an opposite trend compared with their ferrocene analogues 1 in asymmetric allylic substitutions. For ruthenocene ligands 4, the one with the smaller R in the ester group gave higher enantioselectivity for the palladium-catalyzed asymmetric allylic substitutions of 9, while a converse trend had been observed with 1. However, for the palladium-catalyzed asymmetric allylic substitutions of 12, ligand 4 with a larger R in the ester group resulted in somewhat higher enantioselectivity but still an opposite trend with ligand 1. The X-ray diffraction study of crystal structures of 4 and 1 with Pd(II) was carried out and showed that the enantioselectivity was correlated to the twist angle existing in the palladium complex.