Over the last decade, a significant body of research has been developed around the inclusion of a metallocene moiety into known antimalarial compounds. Ferroquine is the most successful of these compounds. Herein, we describe our contribution to metallocene antimalarials. Our approach has sought to introduce diversity sites in the side chain of ferroquine in order to develop a series of ferroqu...

The synthesis, structure and reactivity of a new bipy thorium metallocene have been studied. The reduction of the thorium chloride metallocene [η(5)-1,3-(Me(3)C)(2)C(5)H(3)](2)ThCl(2) (1) with potassium graphite in the presence of 2,2'-bipyridine gives the purple bipy metallocene [η(5)-1,3-(Me(3)C)(2)C(5)H(3)](2)Th(bipy) (2) in good yield. Complex 2 has been fully characterized by various spect...

9 Titanocene and zirconocene complexes with a phenyl or I-naphthyl substituent in one ,B-position of each Cs-ring ligand and with an interannular tetramethylethanoor dimethylsilano-bridge have been prepared. Racemic complex isomers, which are formed together with varying amounts of their meso isomers, were separated from the latter and characterised by lH NMR spectroscopy and X-ray crystallogra...