Recent advances in the development of ferrocene based electroactive small molecules for cation recognition: A comprehensive review of the years 2010–2020

Magnetically induced ring currents in metallocenothiaporphyrins

“…16,17 Ferrocene has been the subject of many studies. [18][19][20][21] The conjugation transmitted by the d electrons of ferrocene and ruthenocene has been studied by incorporating it into a porphyrinoid compound. 22,23 Porphyrins and their derivatives are widely used in various fields due to their rigid molecular structure and strong light absorption in the visible region.…”

Ferrocene functionalized enantiomerically pure Schiff bases and their Zn(ii) and Pd(ii) complexes: a spectroscopic, crystallographic, electrochemical and computational investigation

“…Ferrocene [Fe(Z 5 -C 5 H 5 ) 2 ] (FcH), the iconic organometallic complex discovered 70 years ago, [1][2][3][4][5] displays exceptional properties, 6 and research on ferrocene and its derivatives continues to demonstrate great interest and vitality. [7][8][9] Indeed, ferrocene is fascinating due to its stability under aerobic, moist and photochemical conditions, its thermodynamic robustness, its unique structural properties such as adequate rigidity and steric bulkiness, its easy derivatization, 10,11 and its remarkable redox properties, 3,12,13 endowing ferrocene and its derivatives numerous applications in a wide range of fields, including catalysis, 14 sensing, 15,16 batteries, 17 medicinal chemistry, [18][19][20] and teranostics. 21 Ferrocene has also been explored as an appealing building block in the construction of organometallic chromophores, including asymmetric multidentate ferrocene functionalized Schiff bases and their metal complexes, 22 with tunable and switchable properties relevant to a wide variety of materials-related applications.…”

Assembly, structure and thermoelectric properties of 1,1′-dialkynylferrocene ‘hinges’

“…For these reasons, myriad works have used ferrocene as a building block in the construction of both single-molecule and ensemble electronic devices. [1][2][3] These works have subsequently uncovered interesting applications in switching [4][5][6][7][8] , charge storage [9][10][11][12][13][14] , rectification [15][16][17][18][19] and sensing. [20][21][22][23][24][25] In the design of molecular wires, ferrocene insertion (and more widely the insertion of metal centres) has been shown to increase molecular conductance.…”