Could life arise using iron pentacarbonyl as a solvant?

Iron planets are planets which lack a significant mantle. These planets are essentially lone planetary cores. Since water and iron are unstable together iron pentacarbonyl and other exotic metal-based volatiles might form bodies of liquid on the surface of these worlds. An answer to an earlier question of mine suggested that such a planet might also have significant amounts of liquid ammonia under the right conditions. Here we'll assume that the planet only has a lot of gaseous ammonia in the atmosphere.

Could life plausibly arise in these iron pentacarbonyl oceans? What difficulties would it face biochemically speaking?

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