Thermolysis o
f a benzene solution containing Fe(CO)
5 and
ferrocenylacetylene yielded threene
w compounds: [Fe(CO)
2{
fchars/eta.gi
f" BORDER=0 >
5-2,5-Fc
2C
5H
2CO}C(Fc)=CH] (
1), [Fe(CO)
2{
fchars/eta.gi
f" BORDER=0 >
2:
fchars/eta.gi
f" BORDER=0 >
2-2,5-Fc
2C
4H
2Fe(CO)
3}-
f">-CO] (
2), and [Fe(CO)
3{
fchars/eta.gi
f" BORDER=0 >
2:
fchars/eta.gi
f" BORDER=0 >
2-2,5-Fc
2C
4H
2CO}] (
3). When a benzene solutioncontaining
ferrocenylacetylene and M(CO)
6 (M = Mo, W)
was re
fluxed, 1,2,4-tri
ferrocenylbenzene (
4)
was
formed. In contrast to the reaction o
f ferrocenylacetylene
with Fe(CO)
5,
which leads to cyclization
with insertion o
f a CO molecule, in the reaction
with M(CO)
6 noinsertion o
f CO takes place during cyclization. Ho
wever, i
f the reactions
with M(CO)
6 arecarried out in the presence o
f S
8-po
wder or Se-po
wder, insertion o
f these chalcogen atomsduring cyclization does take place and 2,5-di
ferrocenylthiophene (
5) and 2,5-di
ferrocenylselenophene (
6) are
formed respectively, along
with
4. All ne
w compounds
were characterizedby IR and
1H and
13C NMR spectroscopy. Structures o
f 1-
5 were established by single-crystal X-ray crystallography.