The standard molar enthal
pies of sublimation of ferrocene, 1,1'-dimethylferrocene, decamethylferrocene,ferrocenecarboxaldehyde and
pha.gif" BORDER=0>-methylferrocenemethanol, and the enthal
py of va
porization of
N,
N-dimethyl(aminomethyl)ferrocene, at 298.15 K, were determined by Calvet-dro
p microcalorimetry and/or the Knudseneffusion method. The obtained values were used to assess and refine our
previously develo
ped force field formetallocenes. The modified force field was able to re
produce the
pcafh/112/i13/eqn/j
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pcafh/112/i13/eqn/j
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setwith an accuracy better than 5 kJ·mol
-1, exce
pt for decamethylferrocene, in which case the deviation betweenthe calculated and ex
perimental
pcafh/112/i13/eqn/j
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-1. The origin of the larger error found in the
prediction of the sublimation energetics of decamethylferrocene, and which was also observed in the estimationof structural
pro
perties (e.g., density and unit cell dimensions), is discussed. Finally, the crystal structures ofFe(
5-C
5H
4CH
3)
2 and Fe[(
5-(C
5H
5)(
5-C
5H
4CHO)] at 293 and 150 K, res
pectively, are re
ported.