METALLOCENE

Noun

metallocene (plural metallocenes)

(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

Source: Wiktionary



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