Ferrocenes

Petr Stepnicka, Associate Professor, Department of Inorganic Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Czech Republic.

• Preface. Contributors.PART I: FERROCENE LIGANDS.1 Monodentate Ferrocene Donor Ligands (Robert C.J. Atkinson and Nicholas J. Long).2 The Coordination and Homogeneous Catalytic Chemistry of 1,1'-Bis(diphenylphosphino)ferrocene and its Chalcogenide Derivatives (Sheau W. Chien and T.S. Andy Hor).3 Synthesis, Coordination Chemistry and Catalytic Use of dppf Analogs (Thomas J. Colacot and Sébastien Parisel).4 Other Symmetric 1,1'-Bidentate Ferrocene Ligands (Ulrich Siemeling).5 1-Functionalised Ferrocene Phosphines: Synthesis, Coordination Chemistry and Catalytic Applications (Petr Stepnicka).6 Chiral 1,2-Disubstituted Ferrocene Diphosphines for Asymmetric Catalysis (Hans-Ulrich Blaser, Weiping Chen, Francesco Camponovo and Antonio Togni).7 Synthesis and Catalytic Use of Planar Chiral and Polydentate Ferrocene Donors (Petr Stepnicka and Martin Lamac).PART II: MATERIALS, MOLECULAR DEVICES AND BIOMOLECULES.8 Ferrocene Sensors (Simon R. Bayly, Paul D. Beer and George Z. Chen).9 Ferrocene-Based Electro-Optical Materials (J¨urgen Heck and Markus Dede).10 Ferrocene-Containing Polymers and Dendrimers (Nicholas J. Long and Konrad Kowalski).11 Ferrocene-Containing Thermotropic Liquid Crystals (Robert Deschenaux).12 Crystal Engineering with Ferrocene Compounds (Dario Braga, Marco Curzi, Stefano Luca Giaffreda, Fabrizia Grepioni, Lucia Maini, Anna Pettersen and Marco Polito).13 The Bioorganometallic Chemistry of Ferrocene (Nils Metzler-Nolte and Mich`ele Salmain).Index.

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