Two ferrocenyl-substituted 1,3,4-oxadiazoles, 2-ferrocenyl-1,3,4-oxadiazole (1) and 2,5-diferrocenyl-1,3,4-oxadiazole (2), have been prepared from the corresponding hydrazides, (ferrocenecarbonyl)hydrazine (3) and 1,2-bis(ferrocenecarbonyl)hydrazine (4), and characterized by conventional spectroscopic methods (IR, NMR, MS) and elemental analyses. The solid-state structures of 1, 2 and 4 have been determined by single-crystal X-ray diffraction analysis. The redox behavior of 1 and 2 was studied by electrochemical methods. Compound 1 underwent a reversible one-electron oxidation attributed to the ferrocene/ ferrocenium couple (E o ′ = +0.28 V vs ferrocene/ferrocenium). On the other hand, compound 2 showed two closely separated anodic waves corresponding to two consecutive redox changes, indicating some degree of electronic communication between the ferrocenyl moieties in positions 2 and 5 at the 1,3,4-oxadiazole ring. Substituted 1,3,4-oxadiazoles have found various applications as biologically active compounds and building blocks for materials chemistry 1 . Despite their frequent use in the latter field, there is only little known about the redox-active, ferrocenyl-modified 1,3,4-oxadiazoles. Indeed, the archetypal compounds, 2-ferrocenyl-1,3,4-oxadiazole (1) (ref. 2 ) and 2,5-diferrocenyl-1,3,4-oxadiazole (2) (ref. 3 ) have already been reported. The former compound was obtained by the conventional condensation of ferrocenecarbohydrazide, FcCONHNH 2 (3; Fc = ferrocenyl), with triethyl orthoformate, whereas the diferrocenylated compound 2 and some related compounds, including the unsymmetric derivative (Ph/Fc), were obtained by POCl 3 -mediated cyclization of the respective 1,2-diacylhydrazines,