Talk:Ferrocene

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[edit] Diagrams

I've created and uploaded two new images of ferrocene, a 2D black and white structure and a 3D colour structure. I can modify them if required. I've drawn them in an orientation which allows them to be compared side-by-side.

I think the current line drawing of ferrocene is a bit dodgy, because it makes the C-C bonds look the same as the C-Fe bonds. Having looked in my main chemistry textbooks (Organic Chemistry, Clayden, Greeves, Warren and Wothers and Chemistry of the Elements, Greenwood & Earnshaw), it seems they prefer the shorthand notation of drawing a single bond from the centre of each Cp ring.

I don't want to remove the image from the article, because I imagine many people like it and find it useful. But if you are like me and would prefer a slightly different diagram, comment here. I've created a new image which is how I think the line drawing would look if it were more accurate. I don't like it though, because it's messy! What do you all think?

Ben 22:52, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Pauson v. Paulson

I have a copy of the Nature 1951, December 15, page 1309 in front of me. The authors names are T. J. Kealy and P. L. Pauson. NOT Paulson. Now, having said that subsequent papers are under the name Paulson, such as the retrospective report in Journal of Organometallic Chemistry. In that report he does not cite any literature, so we cannot see how he cited his Nature paper. He was a refugee and possibly was still deciding on how to transliterate his name. ChemAbs lists his name as PauLson on this paper, despite what I can see with my own eyes. Beats me.--Smokefoot 17:00, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

take back some of what I said - he always published under the name Pauson. CAS just messed up. The Duquesne Univ website use the L-free spelling of Pauson.--Smokefoot 17:41, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sublimation

Does anybody know what

Ferrocene, being readily sublimed, can be used to deposit certain kinds of fullerenes

means?? --Chris 21:53, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

No clue here .. what about remove? Maybe a next input will be clearer, does not make sense now? --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 22:24, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

I would suggest that the fullerenes can be incorporated into a solid sample of ferrocene (eg present during a recrystallisation of ferrocene). When the ferrocene/fullerene sample is heated, ferrocene sublimes leaving the fullerene behind.--Artorius 10:48, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Ferrocene is used, so I am told, to deposit multiwalled nanotubes. We probably remove this bit as it is peripheral, but apparently Fc gas decomposes to give the Fe that catalyzes the decomposition of toluene or other carbon donors in a flowing hot tube. The factoid is not particularly critical to the article, and possibly better for a buckytube article. --Smokefoot 11:17, 14 June 2006 (UTC)