Electron transfer of conjugated polymeric ferrocenes

This paper describes three topics on the pi-conjugated ferrocene oligomers and polymers; the first is the dependence of intervalence-transfer bands for mixed-valence oligo(1,1'-dihexylferrocenylene)s on the oxidation number and the number of ferrocene units, the second is synthesis of ate-bridged ferrocene oligomers and a polymer and electrochemical and optical analysis of internuclear electronic interactions in their mixed-valence states and the third is synthesis, redox behaviors and electrodeposition of oligoferrocenylene-modified gold clusters.