International Conference on Materials Science and Research
November 16-18, 2017 Dubai, UAE
Novel Electro-Crystallization of Ferricenyl Materials from Coordination-Driven Self-Assembled Ferrocenyls
1Department of Chemistry, College of Science, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman
2Department of Chemistry, University of Bath, UK
New neutral tetra-ferrocenyl-ethynylpyridinyl copper complexes have been formed by the coordination-driven self-assembly of the ferrocenylethynyl-pyridine Ligand (L) and the copper (I) halides (I-, Br- and Cl-) forming cubic L4(CuI)4, and rhomboid L4(CuBr)2, L4(CuCl)2. However, in the presence of triphenylphosphine (PPh3) under similar conditions, the reactions gave new neutral di-ferrocenyl-ethynylpyridinyl copper complexes, L2(CuI)2(PPh3)2, L2(CuBr)2(PPh3)2, and L2(CuCl)2(PPh3)2. Ferrocenylethynyl functionalized pyridine ligand provided the coordination site to connect ferrocenyl units through the copper clusters.
The ferrocenylethynyl-copper cluster materials oxidize under mild condition giving electro-crystallization of oxidized products. EDX analysis indicated formation of partially- and fully-oxidized products. These results were complimented by Raman analysis. SEM showed oxidation products having distinct morphologies. Some of these morphologies of the electrodeposited Cu-based microstructure are of high recent interest for fundamental studies and for potential applications in catalysis and other fields.
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Herein, we will present the convenient synthesis, electrochemistry, SEM, EDX, etc. and future prospect of the electro-crystallized multi-ferricenyl materials.
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Biography:
Dr. Hakikulla Shah was born in Dhule, Maharashtra, India, in 1982. He received the B.Sc. degree in Chemistry from the North Maharashtra University, Jalgaon, India, in 2004, and the M.Sc (Major: Analytical Chemistry) Chemistry from Wadia College, Pune University, India. He pursued his Ph.D. degree in Chemistry (Organometallics) from Sultan Qaboos University, Oman in 2013. During his Ph.D. he also obtained a research scholarship from British Council, UK from a British council PMI-2 Research collaboration in the Middle East grant. During his Ph.D. training Dr. Shah stayed half of every year at University of Bath, UK from 2010-2012 as a British Council visiting scholar. Currently, Dr. Shah is working at Department of Basic Science, in College of Applied Science at AʼSharqiyah University, Oman.