Accession Number:

AD0759152

Title:

Oxidation-Resistant Metallocenes. The Preparation and Reactions of Decachloroferrocene and Decachlororuthenocene

Descriptive Note:

Technical rept. May 1969-Oct 1970

Corporate Author:

AIR FORCE MATERIALS LAB WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB OH

Personal Author(s):

• Hedberg, Frederick L.
• Rosenberg, Harold

Report Date:

1971-12-01

Pagination or Media Count:

27.0

Abstract:

In order to obtain stable metallocenes, suitable for development into metal-containing polymers, resistant to oxidizing environments, the synthesis and reactions of the previously unreported class of perhalometallocenes was investigated. The detailed preparation of the first oxidation-stable metallocene, perchloroferrocene, i.e., 1,1,2,2,3,3,4,4,5,5- decachloroferrocene I, by a stepwise metalation-exchange halogenation process, with and without direct isolation of polychlorinated intermediates, is reported. The use of the direct route was extended to the synthesis of perchlororuthenocene II which was obtained from ruthenocene in six repetitive metalation chlorination steps. Both I and II were found to be readily metalated by n-butyllithium in tetra-hydrofuran at low temperatures to yield the corresponding 1,1-dilithio derivatives. The versatility of these derivatives, as well as their precursors, for preparing other perchlorometallocenes, and particularly heteroannular difunctional monomers, is described.

Descriptors:

• *FERROCENES
• SYNTHESIS(CHEMISTRY)
• CHEMICAL REACTIONS
• HALOGENATED HYDROCARBONS
• LITHIUM COMPOUNDS
• CHLORINE COMPOUNDS

Subject Categories:

• Organic Chemistry

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE