Making Metallocenes - Organometallic Sandwiches 

Interesting but the audio is like a whisper, don't worry I'll still click like the button lol

Seeing university chemistry on youtube is really interesting. Never expected to see these out of my lab, out here. Best thing about you being you're not following any trend(like most chemistry youtubers out here :) ) , rather you're showing what actual chemistry looks like. Keep it up mate!

The ending was heartbreaking, the reaction (no pun intended) to the failure made me laugh, but I feel sorry for the loss! The air sensitivity was not an exaggeration!

I'm glad to hear the sponsorship worked out for you :)

Ferrocene has some promise as a gasoline additive. It is already sold as an antiknock compound to allow modern gasoline to burn better in vintage car engines. It does have the unfortunate side effect of leaving iron deposits on spark plugs, especially in an engine that runs a bit rich. It is also effective at reducing smoke and sulfur trioxide emissions from burning coal, even in small amounts.

Love your style of videos! We appreciated the effort that goes into it

Hi there, atomic physicist here... I can report that Metallocenes are quite interesting for us because they provide a good way of transfering metals via the gas phase at room temperature or below. I recently conducted an experiment at a so called 'electron beam ion trap' EBIT where metal atoms are placed into an electron beam to rip off electrons and trap the resulting positively charged ions in the negative electron beam's field. Afterwards you can study the interaction of ions and electrons in a well defined and spacially confined area. A very nice way of getting the metal atoms into the crygenic EBIT is by using a Metallocenes - like Ferrorcene in our case - because you can just hook up a gas cylinder and use a simple gas inlet-valve. Hope that's at least midly interesting...

I'm into chemistry RU-vid but I haven't run across your channel yet. Subbed! This is a neat project. Keep up the good work!

nice work, I'm glad I found your channel! To be fair to metallocenes, they might not have found many practical applications, but they were very important in developing our understanding of chemical bonding. At the time the structure of ferrocene was first correctly described, it was so unusual that the journal editor accused the future nobel laureates of being high on hashish!

Would love to see a revisit to this where you are able to purify the products. Would love to see more videos about organometallics!

you are doing a great job...from an organic chemist somewhere in europe

It's much easier to learn from a real practical synthesis than from qa book wher you only can only see the drawed reaction theoretically. Thank you very much for the video

Diphenylfosfinoferrocene is used as a lygand in palladium catalysed couplings, some chiral metallocenes have been used in asymmetric catalysis and some are used as standards in organic electrochemistry

Excited for part 2 of this, with the cold finger in your possession.

Group 4b metallocenes are used for stereospecific synthesis of polymers!

Iron half sandwich complexes are used to stabilize cyclobutadien. You can make NaCp by reacting dicyclopentadien with sodium. The product can be washed with hexane and should be white.

Very nice video! Metallocenes are awesome. I may have to make ferrocenium hexafluorophosphate soon, starting from ferrocene (which is the only cheap one). I would love to try cobaltocene sometime! I will definitely rewatch your video before that.

I definitely had fun watching you do chemistry!

Congratulations on the sponser!

i used metallocenes (specifically cobaltocene) in my undergrad lab for thin film Co3O4 synthesis! it shows potential as an electrocatalyst

Really like your videos!

I admit these are better metal sandwiches than my peanutbutter & screws from the hardware store

I can feel the pain you had when Cobaltocene got oxidised 😢

No significant use? You might want to take a look at ziegler natta (kaminsky) catalysts. Nevertheless great video!

Really remarkable. So much resources have been invested. Thank You for your input and time !

What do you mean they don't have any uses?? They have tons of uses, and half sandwich compounds are also super useful!

Takes me back. I once tried, and perhaps partially succeeded, in making ferrocenylnickelocene (cp-Fe-cp-Ni-cp). But I was unable to purify it to be sure. Maybe you can do better.

The solution of anhydrous cobalt (II) chloride is a nice deep blue color

The videos are great but why is the sound so low? I have to increase my volume to 2 or 3 times my normal to barely be able to hear anything

Ferrocene has actually been evaluated in the past as an antiknock agent in gasoline to replace tetraethyl lead. It works, but then other better compounds (like methylcyclopentadienyl manganese tricarbonyl, another metallocene) came along and ferrocene didn't make it to being used for this purpose industrially.

If you need a cold finger.... My urologist has one... 🤣

Excellent complex videos!

Wow, manganocene looks amazing

You forgot the coolest example of metallocenes--double-deckers! I may be a little biased (my first-ever paper was on them)

Cold finger- sounds like a 007 parody

I've cracked my fair share of Cp2 and I am surprized you didn't comment on the smell, you must have a super good fume hood lmao. It used to fill my lab with this lovely super dense gasoline smell

Lovely! I wish I could do this.

Great work.

You should trymaking ruthanocene bis aza crown ether

So, back in the Metallocene Age, there were organic complexes held together with a metal atom...

love me some metallocene chemistry

1:51 what's that metal thing you use to xfer heat from your hotplate to the rbf called? I could definitely use one of those

I almost remember the stench of the cyclopentadienes from my inorganic chem experimental class. Real puke maker.

wow nice

Simplest is Chromocene - DiBenzene Chromium. CrCl3 solution, add benzene and Zinc powder then stir.

Hey i use the same heidolph hotplate at my work!

Metallic sodium is insane! use Na-H in oil. (OR CaH2) in oil.

what about olefin polymerization catalysts? while its old chemistry, metallocenes have been plenty useful.

good stuff

The video is very quiet compared to the typical RU-vid ad volume! I can hear it if I turn it up about 70% volume but then the ads startle me lol

Make Rhodocene, Its documented very well

Do you kn ow what cobaltocene converts to on exposure to air? My guess is cobsltocenium oxide, but i'm probably wrong.

Also, since you live in the EU, how do you deal with EU regulations? And how are the regulations regarding buying chemicals in the Netherlands?

*"Yes, I drink sandwiches."*

enjoyable

Cool !

What if you tried reacting ferrocene with fullerene? (Eve Online reference)

Nice video! Can i ask where you got the round bottom flask reaction block thingy at 1:56 from?

Can they be used in tattoo inks?

=IT'S STILL SURPRISING ABOUT HOW FERROCENE IS STABLE,THOUGH ...............BECAUSE OF WE ALL SAW HOW FAST ALL THESE ARE GETTING DESTROYED,THOUGH

Hello sir. Can you make video on synthesis of valerophenone.

Uranocene when?

Are there any metallocene like ferrocene but with a copper atom instead of iron?

😭😭😭😭 air entered the flask. What a letdown.

cool

An interesting video but the volume is weak.

You’re audio is too low dude. I can hear everything fine but I got my volume at max

lol at "useless ass bs"

Are these drugs? lf these arent drugs lm not interested

Your video is quite good, the only thing is the presentation need some work, the voice should be... well. Take a look at Nilered video, I guess you will find some inspiration.

Great Video, love to see some more air free chem on youtube!

Every time I hear the term "gradient" it makes me nervous...

How can you say that metallocenes are useless? This group of compounds is used as catalyst in ethylene or propylene polimeryzation to form various type of poly(ethylene) and poly(propylene) with such a controlled manner, that was never possible in history. Those PEs are so called mPEs (metallocene poly(ethylenes)) and are used in many, many aplications - from laminates, where PE is required to be as transparent as possible, to big plastic bags that are used as vacuum bags and their heat seals need to be tight as much as it can to prevent air leaking inside or on the other end of spectrum - small bags, f.e. chips bags, that are mass produced in high speed process, where the seal need to be formed really fast and has to hold air inside the bag. Those are just some of the applications of those PEs, like I said, there are many more, and all of that is possible thanks to metallocene catalysts.

0:40 Oh my gosh, it always triggers me so much that they can´t draw the Lewis-Formula of Ferrocene correctly 😤

man, this reaction is full of precursors that don't want to sit still. cyclopentadiene wants to wants to dimerise, iron ii chloride wants to oxidise, and potassium hydroxide wants to absorb water from the air

I remember this one from school. It's comforting to know that skilled people such as yourself sometimes have little accidents too!

Парень, ты нереально крутой, такие синтезы сложные дома снимать...

Love seeing organometallic chemistry on RU-vid.

here we can't buy cyclopentadiene or its dimer, is there a way to make it ?

Do one with cuper