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AFTER earlier investigations1 had shown the practicability of self-condensing ferrocenyl carbinols to give polymers containing ferrocenylene units interconnected by methylene or methine bridges, it was of interest to investigate the direct condensation of ferrocene with aldehydes. These components, if used in proper molar ratios, should interact according to equation 1: 
with ferrocenyl carbinols and corresponding metallo-carbonium ions expected to occur as intermediates, and the resulting polymers should possess structure I: 
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Neuse, E. W., and Trifan, D. S., J. Amer. Chem. Soc., 85, 1952 (1963).
Neuse, E. W., and Trifan, D. S., Abstr. Papers presented at the 148th Nat. Meeting, Amer. Chem. Soc., Chicago, Ill., 5S (September 1964).
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NEUSE, E. Ferrocene-containing Polymers : Polycondensation of Ferrocene with Aldehydes. Nature 204, 179–180 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1038/204179a0
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