Advances in Ferrocene-Based Molecular Research: Synthesis, Properties, and Applications
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Physical Chemistry and Chemical Physics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2025 | Viewed by 117
Special Issue Editor
Interests: ferrocene peptides; chiroptical sensing; conformational analysis; chirality transfer; circular dichroism spectroscopy
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Dear Colleagues,
The discovery of ferrocene in 1951 and the decoding of its aromatic sandwich structure marked the beginning of a new era in the development of organometallic chemistry. The unusual stability of ferrocene is the result of the presence of two aromatic cyclopentadienyl ions with ten electrons from five carbon–carbon single bonds and a cloud of six additional electrons located above and below the plane of the aromatic rings. Since its discovery, numerous ferrocene derivatives, sometimes referred to as the benzene of modern organometallic chemistry, have been synthesized and characterized. Due to their extraordinary properties, ferrocene and its derivatives have been described in more than 23,000 publications in various fields. These include nanotechnology, sensor technology, optical and redox devices, batteries and other materials, catalysis, especially asymmetric catalysis, and medicinal chemistry. Considering the diversity of ferrocene derivatives themselves, as well as their applications, we warmly invite you to contribute relevant work to this Special Issue.
Dr. Mojca Čakić Semenčić
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- ferrocene
- organometallic chemistry
- bioorganometallic chemistry
- ferrocene derivatives
- synthesis
- applications
- bioconjugates
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