Royal Society of Chemistry, Chemical Communications, 84(49), p. 9785, 2013
DOI: 10.1039/c3cc44619k
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Simple manual grinding of solid cyanomethylferrrocene () and silica gel provides a facile one-pot access route to prepare unexpected and highly electron-poor metallocene, 1-cyanocarbonylferrocene (). Electrochemical measurements supported by computational studies reveal that exhibits the highest Fe(II)/Fe(III) oxidation potential reported for mono-substituted ferrocenes.