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The Crystal and Molecular Structure Analysis of the Centrosymmetric Polynuclear Ferrocene Complex (C₁₀H₉Fe)₃C(C₄OH₇)

F. Hanic, J. Ševčík, and E. L. McGandy

Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava 9

Abstract:  The crystal and molecular structure of the polynuclear ferrocene complex   (C₁₀H₉Fe)₃C(C₄OH₇) has been explained by X-ray structure analysis using direct methods. The space group symmetry is PI. The asymmetric part of the unit cell contains two molecules (C₁₀H₉Fe)₃C(C₄OH₇). The polynuclear molecules consist of three ferrocenyl groups bonded to the common carbon atom. The fourth group bonded to the same carbon atom is a tetrahydrofuran ring. The ring atoms of ths cyclopentadiene rings do not deviate significantly from planarity. The angle of tilt between the least-squares planes is between 2.9° to 8.9°. The diffractometric intensities of 2292 independent reflections have been used. The final R factor was 0.063.

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Chemical Papers 24 (2) 81–106 (1970)