“…296.9 [d] ;2 97.9 [d] 297.1 [d] ;3 08.1 In addition to metallocenophanes of magnesium, there are severale xamples of metallocenophanes of the heaviera lkaline earth metals calcium, strontium and barium, witht he majority being calcocenophanes, 2 (Figure 4). [36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51][52][53] In contrast to magnesocenophanes, 1,w here the synthesis commonly involves metalation of an ansa-ligand system by deprotonation with dibutyl magnesium( Scheme1), calcocenophanes, 2,a nd strontiocenophane, 3,a re often prepared by oxidative coupling startingf rom the corresponding alkaline earth metal and a suitablef ulvene (Scheme5). [38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51][52] Activated calcium or strontium metal reacts with as uitable fulvene in ad onor solvent, such as thf, and gives the corre-spondingC [2]metallocenophane, as first demonstrated by Edelmann et al in 1993.…”