Formation of unexpected silicon- and disiloxane-bridged multiferrocenyl derivatives bearing Si-O-CH[double bond, length as m-dash]CH and Si-(CH)C(CH) substituents via cleavage of tetrahydrofuran and trapping of its ring fragments.

The formation of a family of silicon- and siloxane-bridged multiferrocenyl derivatives carrying different functional groups attached to silicon, including Fc(CH)C(CH)SiCH[double bond, length as m-dash]CH (5), Fc(CH[double bond, length as m-dash]CH-O)SiCH[double bond, length as m-dash]CH (6), Fc(OH)SiCH[double bond, length as m-dash]CH (7), Fc(CH[double bond, length as m-dash]CH-O)Si-O-Si(O-CH[double bond, length as m-dash]CH)Fc (8) and Fc(CH[double bond, length as m-dash]CH-O)Si-O-SiFc (9) is described. Silyl vinyl ether molecules 6, 8 and 9 and the heteroleptic vinylsilane 5 resulted from the competing metathesis reaction of lithioferrocene (FcLi), CH[double bond, length as m-dash]CH-OLi or (CH)C(CH)Li with the corresponding multifunctional chlorosilane, ClSiCH[double bond, length as m-dash]CH or ClSi-O-SiCl. The last two organolithium species have been likely formed in situ by fragmentation of the tetrahydrofuran solvent.

Mechanochemical and silica gel-mediated formation of highly electron-poor 1-cyanocarbonylferrocene.

Simple manual grinding of solid cyanomethylferrrocene (1) and silica gel provides a facile one-pot access route to prepare unexpected and highly electron-poor metallocene, 1-cyanocarbonylferrocene (2). Electrochemical measurements supported by computational studies reveal that 2 exhibits the highest Fe(II)/Fe(III) oxidation potential reported for mono-substituted ferrocenes.

Pt(II)-activated coupling of aminoethylferrocene with benzonitrile. A facile access route to a new redox-active bis(ferrocenyl-amidine) anion sensor.

A new heterometallic electroactive compound having the ferrocenyl moiety attached to the platinum atom through an amidine functionality has been prepared via Pt(II)-mediated nucleophilic addition of β-aminoethylferrocene to a benzonitrile ligand. This neutral receptor shows remarkable electrochemical anion-sensing redox response to H(2)PO(4)(-).

Structure-activity relationship of new trans-platinum(II) and (IV) complexes with cyclohexylamine. Interference with cell cycle progression and induction of cell death.

The new trans-Pt complexes, derived from trans-[PtCl2(amine)(dimethylamine)] and trans-[PtCl2(OH)2(amine)(dimethylamine)], were synthesized and characterized studying the structure-activity relationship and testing their antiproliferative activity. Their evaluation as cytotoxic agents towards different cancer and normal cell lines is presented. These compounds are active in a panel of tumor cell lines at low micromolar range.