Syntheses of Ferrocene Derivatives with Potentially Mesogenic Functional Substituents
Abstract
Ferrocenyl imines, Fe{η5-C5H4CHNC6H4OCnH2n+1-4)}(η5-C5H5) and Fe{η5-C5H3-1-(CO2Et)-3-(CHNC6H4OCnH2n+1-4)}(η5-C5H5) (n=5–9) produced from formylferrocene and 1-(ethoxycarbonyl)-3-(formyl)ferrocene, respectively, and some diaryl esters of ferrocenedicarboxlic acids have been synthesised and characterised by analysis and spectroscopy.