“…Anhydrous iron(III) chloride and its hexa-hydrate feature widely in contemporary organic syntheses, since, because of their Lewis acid properties, they can initiate or catalyze a variety of organic transformations [ 17 , 18 , 19 , 20 , 21 , 22 , 23 , 24 , 25 , 26 ]. Because of their redox properties arising from the 1e − , Fe III /Fe II redox transformation, they are also the basis of a useful polymerization process [ 27 , 28 , 29 , 30 , 31 ], for example the polymerization of thiophene.…”