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Synthesis and Characterization of 1,2-Dithiolane Modified Self-Assembling Peptides
Published on: August 20, 2018
Crystal structure of (E)-1,2-diferrocenyl-1,2-bis(furan-2-yl)ethene
Anthony Linden1, Róża Hamera-Fałdyga2, Grzegorz Mlostoń2
1Department of Chemistry, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, CH-8057 Zurich, Switzerland.
Abstract:
The title compound, [Fe2(C5H5)2(C20H14O2)], is the product of a new synthetic route towards tetra-aryl/hetaryl-substituted ethenes that reduces the occurrence of side-products. In the crystal, the mol-ecule is centrosymmetric and the cyclo-penta-dienyl (Cp) rings are nearly coplanar and aligned slightly closer to a staggered conformation than to an eclipsed one. The ethene plane is tilted by 32.40 (18)° with respect to that of the substituted Cp ring and by 63.19 (19)° with respect to that of the furan ring. C-H⋯π inter-actions link the mol-ecules into a three-dimensional supramolecular framework.
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