Effects of metal atom motion and ring rotation in iron organometallics. Synthesis of isotopically labelled nonamethyl [57Fe]ferrocene
摘要:
Temperature dependent Fe-57 Mossbauer effect studies on nonamethyl ferrocene (NMF), have been carried out on isotopically enriched material over the temperature range 90 < T < 290 K. These measurements have led to the elucidation of the dynamical behaviour of the iron atom and reflect the onset of ring rotation and libration. These results are compared to corresponding data for ferrocene and related compounds. A convenient small scale synthesis suited for the preparation of Fe-57-enriched nonamethylferrocene which allows its easy separation in pure form, is also presented. With the exception of nonamethylferrocene, which is unresolvable due to its lattice-neighbour related conformational ring disorders, X-ray structure determinations of all new compounds of the reaction sequence, and of the starting compound hydroxymethyloctamethylferrocene (octamethylferrocenyl methanol) have been performed. (C) 2003 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.