P. Zanello et al., REDOX BEHAVIOR OF FERROCENE DERIVATIVES .7. CHALCOGEN-BRIDGED TRINUCLEAR AND TETRANUCLEAR FERROCENES, Journal of organometallic chemistry, 484(1-2), 1994, pp. 67-70
The electrochemical behaviour of the trinuclear and tetranuclear chalc
ogen-bridged ferrocenes Fc-E-(fc)-E-Fc and Fc-E-(fc)-E-E-(fc)-E-Fc (Fc
=(eta(5)-C5H5)Fe(eta(5)-C5H4)- (ferrocenyl); fc = -(eta(5)-C5H4)Fe(eta
-C5H4)- (1,1'-ferrocenediyl); E = S, Se or Te) has been studied in dic
hloromethane solution. In the trinuclear complexes, the expected rever
sible one-electron oxidation of each ferrocene unit takes place throug
h two nearly overlapping one-electron steps followed by a one-electron
process at higher potential. It is assumed that the first two-electro
n step corresponds to almost simultaneous electron removals from the t
erminal, non-interacting ferrocenyl units, whereas the second process
is centred on the central ferrocene. In the tetranuclear species, the
oxidation occurs through a single two-electron process, again centred
on the terminal ferrocenyl units, followed by two separate one-electro
n steps centred on the inner dichalcogen-bridged diferrocene unit,