“…In fact, it is now well established that the incorporation of ferrocene units in organic molecules confers significant new properties on these materials. Recently, ferrocenyl derivatives were reported to display antimalarial (Biot et al, 1997;Itoh et al, 2000), antitumor and DNA-cleaving (Lautens et al, 1996;Dell et al, 1998) activities. For these reasons, the synthesis of new compounds containing the ferrocenyl unit is important.…”