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Metallocene
metallocene
metallocene
See also: Metallocene and métallocène
English
Noun
metallocene (plural metallocenes)
- (chemistry) any of a class of organic compound containing two cyclopentadienyl anions and a transition metal whose bonding involves overlap of ns and np orbitals of the metal with molecular orbitals of appropriate symmetry of each cyclopentadienyl ring; the rings are either parallel to each other, or sometimes canted
See also
- cobaltocene
- ferrocene
- hafnocene
- manganocene
- molybdocene
- niobocene
- rhodocene
- tantalocene
- tungstenocene
- vanadocene
- zirconocene