Contemporary Developments in Ferrocene Chemistry: Physical, Chemical, Biological and Industrial Aspects

  • Molecules. 2023 Jul 30;28(15):5765. doi: 10.3390/molecules28155765.
Umair Rauf  1 ,  Ghulam Shabir  1 ,  Saba Bukhari  1 ,  Fernando Albericio  2  3 ,  Aamer Saeed  1
Affiliations
  • 1. Department of Chemistry, Quaid-I-Azam University, Islamabad 45320, Pakistan.
  • 2. Peptide Science Laboratory, School of Chemistry and Physics, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Westville, Durban 4000, South Africa.
  • 3. CIBER-BBN, Networking Centre on Bioengineering, Biomaterials and Nanomedicine, Department of Organic Chemistry, University of Barcelona, 08028 Barcelona, Spain.
PMID: 37570735 DOI: 10.3390/molecules28155765
Abstract

Ferrocenyl-based compounds have many applications in diverse scientific disciplines, including in polymer chemistry as redox dynamic Polymers and dendrimers, in Materials science as bioreceptors, and in pharmacology, biochemistry, electrochemistry, and nonlinear optics. Considering the horizon of ferrocene chemistry, we attempted to condense the neoteric advancements in the synthesis and applications of ferrocene derivatives reported in the literature from 2016 to date. This paper presents data on the progression of the synthesis of diverse classes of organic compounds having ferrocene scaffolds and recent developments in applications of ferrocene-based organometallic compounds, with a special focus on their biological, medicinal, bio-sensing, chemosensing, asymmetric catalysis, material, and industrial applications.

Keywords
applications; asymmetric catalysis; bioreceptors; chemosensors; ferrocene; synthesis.
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