Design and Construction of Endo-Functionalized Multiferrocenyl Hexagons via Coordination-Driven Self-Assembly and Their Electrochemistry

The construction of a new family of endo-functionalized multiferrocenyl hexagons with various sizes via coordination-driven self-assembly is described. The structures of these novel metallacycles, containing several ferrocenyl moieties at their interior surface, are characterized by multinuclear NMR (P-31 and H-1) spectroscopy, cold-spray ionization mass spectrometry (CSI-TOF-MS), elemental analysis, and molecular modeling. Insight into the structural and electrochemical properties of these endo-functionalized multiferrocenyl hexagons was obtained investigation. through cyclic voltammetry