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Related Terms:
molybdocene
cobaltocene
metallocenes
zirconocene
cyclopentadienyl
bonding
parallel
organic
vanadocene
canted
overlap
tungstenocene
niobocene
sandwich compound
molecular orbital
manganocene
ferrocene
transition metal
nickelocene
tantalocene
anion
compound
hafnocene
ring
orbital
scandocene
dicyclopentadienyl
symmetry
Noun
Definition: 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.