metallocene

See also: Metallocene and métallocène

English

Etymology

From metallo- +‎ c(yclopentadi)ene. First used in ferrocene.

Noun

metallocene (plural metallocenes)

1. (organic 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

Translations

organic compound

• Catalan: metal·locè m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 茂金屬／茂金属 (màojīnshǔ)

• Finnish: metalloseeni
• French: métallocène m
• German: Metallocen n
• Italian: metallocene (it) m
• Japanese: メタロセン (metarosen)
• Kazakh: металлоцен (metallosen)
• Korean: 메탈로센 (metallosen)
• Kyrgyz: металлоцен (metallotsen)
• Persian: متالوسن

See also

• sandwich compound

Italian

Noun

metallocene m (plural metalloceni)

1. (chemistry) metallocene

Anagrams

• noce metella