Click Chemistry: A Powerful and Versatile Methodology for Preparation of Ferrocene-Containing Polymers

Abstract

Ferrocene-containing polymers (FcPs) have attracted much research interest in the last decade, due to their unique properties and enormous applications. However, it is a great synthetic challenge to prepare FcPs before the advent of click chemistry. In this review, we summarized the recent research efforts on synthesizing FcPs through click reactions, which include click modification of preformed polymers and click polymerization of ferrocene (Fc) containing monomers. Due to the containing Fc moieties, the FcPs enjoy excellent redox activity, thermal stability, electrochemical property, and magnetism. Accordingly, they are promising to be used as electro-

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“…One such molecule is the electrochemically active sandwich compound ferrocene. By synthesizing organometallic molecules such as ferrocene to be “thiol‐clickable”, opportunities exist to develop materials with improved optical, electrochemical, and mechanical properties …”

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Synthesis, Chiroptical, and Redox Properties of Ferrocene‐Containing Optically Active Polymers

“…Ferrocene‐containing polymers are promising as functional materials applicable to memory devices, rechargeable lithium batteries, catalysts, and liquid crystalline materials . These polymers are synthesized by vinyl and ring‐opening polymerizations, and polycondensation/polyaddition . Ferrocene‐containing π‐conjugated polymers such as poly(phenylenevinylene)s and poly(phenyleneethynylene)s are commonly synthesized by Mizoroki–Heck, Suzuki–Miyaura, and Sonogashira–Hagihara coupling polymerizations using palladium catalysts .…”

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