Organic Communications

Year: 2013  Volume: 6  Issue: 3

 

  ORIGINAL ARTICLE

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The effect of metal salts on the oxidation reaction of (acetylphenyl)ferrocenes

Yutaka Okada and Miho Sasaki

Department of Applied Chemistry, Ritsumeikan University, 1-1-1 Nojihigashi, Kusatsu, Shiga 525-8577, Japan

Department of Chemistry, AP-IIIT Basara, Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies, Mudhole, Adilabad, Andhra Pradesh-504 107, India

Abstract: The effect of metal salts on the oxidation reaction of (acetylphenyl)ferrocenes was determined. For the p- and m-isomers, the effect was accelerated, but for the o-isomer, the effect was suppressed. This suppressing effect was related to the chelate ring containing the substrate and the metal ion.

Keywords: Ferrocene derivatives; oxidation reaction; metal salt; chelate effect.