Stephen O’Brien, Jonathan Tudor, Stephen Barlow, Mark J. Drewitt, Stephen J. Heyes and Dermot O’Hare
The walls of the mesoporous silicate MCM-41 can be functionalised with ferrocenyl end groups by reaction with an alkane solution of (1,1′-ferrocenediyl)dimethylsilane; the product is studied by solid-state NMR and EXAFS spectroscopies.