Hydrogen exchange of ferrocene and its derivatives

✍ Scribed by A.N Nesmeyanov; D.N Kursanov; V.N Setkina; N.V Kislyakova; N.S Kochetkova

• Book ID: 104249735
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1961
• Tongue: French
• Weight: 103 KB
• Volume: 2
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0040-4039
• DOI: 10.1016/s0040-4039(01)99203-2

✦ Synopsis

FOLLOWIIG a short communication' referring to an unpublished observation by J.O. Santer on deuteration of ferrocene in the presence of BFS.D20, we deem it necessary to report on our investigation of hydrogen exchange of ferrocene and its derivatives in acidic media. We found ferrocene to substitute deuterium readily for hydrogen atoms when dissolved in anhydrous deuterosulphuric acid. At the same time ferrocene was oxidized to ferrocinium cation which, however, did not take part in hydrogen exchange. Both concurrent reactions, deuteroexchange and oxidation, proceeded at different rates. Different acidic donors of deuterium with no oxidative properties smoothly exchange hydrogen in ferrocene. Thus the isotope exchange reaction of ferrocene hydrogen runs at room temperature in such media as a f Translated by A.L. Pum iansky, Moscow T.