“…8 After a reinvestigation of the original work, it was found that the soluble polymer was composed of a mixture of short poly(ferrocenylene) segments, with a mixed substitution (represented by 3) on the ferrocene of homoannular (1,2-and 1,3-) and heteroannular (1,1′-) units, linked by methylene and oxygencontaining hydrocarbon units. 9,10 Subsequently, different radical reactions have been reported such as mixed Ullmann reactions of haloand 1,1′-dihaloferrocene with copper bronze, 11,12 coupling reactions of lithio-and 1,1′-dilithioferrocene with cobalt chloride in the presence of organic halides, [13][14][15] treatment of poly(mercuriferrocenylene) with metallic silver 16 or in molten ferrocene, 17 or glow discharge polymerization. 18 All led to oligomers with molecular weights in the range M n ) 1000-3500, with poorly defined structures, low conductivity (σ ) 10 -7 to 10 -9 S cm -1 ), and paramagnetic behavior.…”