
%0 Journal Article
%A Beckwith, ALJ 
%A Leydon, RJ 
%T The reaction of ferricinium ion with phenylazotriphenylmethane
%J Australian Journal of Chemistry
%D 1966/10/01
%V 19
%N 10
%P 1853-1858
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/CH9661853
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/CH9661853 
%X Ferricinium tetrafluoroborate, when treated with phenylazotriphenylmethane in acetic acid, affords inter alia phenylferrocene and a trace of 1,1?-diphenylferrocene both of which products probably arise by attack of free phenyl radicals on ferricinium ion. Produced in the same reaction are triphenylmethylferrocene and 1,1?-di-(triphenylmethyl)ferrocene, and these compounds are also formed by treatment of ferrocene with triphenylcarbinol. The relevance of these results to the mechanism of the arylation of ferrocene with diazonium salts is discussed. 
