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unusual facts about metallocene


Metallocene

:Triple-decker complexes are composed of three Cp anions and two metal cations in alternating order.


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Organouranium chemistry

After the discovery of ferrocene in 1951, Todd Reynolds and Geoffrey Wilkinson in 1956 synthesized the uranium metallocene Cp3UCl from sodium cyclopentadienide and uranium tetrachloride as a stable but extremely air-sensitive compound.

Polyethylene

Catalytic systems based on soluble catalysts, the metallocenes, were reported in 1976 by Walter Kaminsky and Hansjörg Sinn.


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