Seeded-growth self-assembled polymerization of a ferrocene-bearing palladium(ii)-terpyridyl bimetallic complex

A new bimetallic complex containing a 4 '-ferrocenyl-(2,2 ':6 ',2 ''-terpyridine)palladium core with polyethylene glycol-based pyridine is applied in seeded-growth self-assembled supramolecular polymerization, which affords nanoribbons with controllable lengths and the process follows a first-order reaction kinetics. This approach is successfully demonstrated for a bimetallic organic complex for the first time.