dicyclopentadienyl metal
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dicyclopentadienyl metal — /duy suy kloh pen teuh duy en l/, Chem. ferrocene (def. 2). [DI 1 + CYCLOPENTADIENE + YL] … Useful english dictionary
ferrocene — /fer euh seen /, n. Chem. 1. Also called dicyclopentadienyliron. an orange, crystalline, water insoluble coordination compound, (C5H5)2Fe, having a camphorlike odor: used chiefly as an antiknock agent for gasoline and as a catalyst. Cf.… … Universalium
Wilkinson, Sir Geoffrey — ▪ 1997 British chemist (b. July 14, 1921, Todmorden, Yorkshire, Eng. d. Sept. 26, 1996, London, Eng.), was the corecipient, with Ernst Fischer, of the 1973 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for work in organometallic chemistry in which the sandwich … Universalium
