Definitions For Metallocene

Noun

METALLOCENE (plural METALLOCENEs) (organic compound) 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

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Translations

Catalan: metal·locè, m Chinese: : Mandarin: 茂金屬 (màojīnshǔ) Finnish: metalloseeni French: métallocène, m German: Metallocen, n Italian: metallocene, m Japanese: メタロセン (metarosen) Kazakh: металлоцен Korean: 메탈로센 Kyrgyz: металлоцен Persian: متالوسن

See also

sandwich compound {{C, en, Metallocene}}