metallocene

See also: Metallocene and métallocène

English

Noun

metallocene (plural metallocenes)

1. (chemistry) Any of a class of organic compounds 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 parallel to each other, or sometimes canted.

Hyponyms

• chromocene
• cobaltocene
• ferrocene
• hafnocene
• manganocene
• molybdocene
• niobocene

• rhodocene
• tantalocene
• titanocene
• tungstenocene
• uranocene
• vanadocene
• zirconocene

See also

• sandwich compound

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Italian

Noun

metallocene m (plural metalloceni)

1. (chemistry) metallocene