A new family of supramolecular multiferrocenyl rhomboids: Synthesis, characterization, and their electrochemical behavior

Two novel, supramolecular, multiferrocenyl rhomboids 5 and 6 have been successfully constructed from newly designed 60 ferrocenyl donor precursor 1 via coordination-driven self-assembly. The structures of all multiferrocenyl rhomboids were characterized by multinuclear NMR (H-1 and P-31), CSI TOF-MS, and PM6 semi-empirical molecular simulation, and their electrochemical behaviors have been investigated. (C) 2013 Hai-Bo Yang. Published by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of Chinese Chemical Society. All rights reserved.