“…After solvent removal at reduced pressure, the crude product was purified by column chromatography (silica gel deactivated with triethylamine, 30 × 3 cm, petroleum ether!petroleum ether/ethyl acetate, 5 : 1) giving dimethyl ferrocene-1,1'-bis(carbodithioate) (10, 250 mg, 0.7 mmol, 25 %) as a dark red viscous oil. ) were added dropwise to ferrocene-1,1'-dicarbocylic acid [76] (11, 100 mg, 0.5 mmol, 1.0 equiv.) in dichloromethane (15 mL), and the mixture was heated at reflux (45°C) for 2.5 h. After cooling to 23°C the solvent was removed at reduced pressure.…”