Ernst Otto Fischer was a German chemist who won the Nobel Prize for pioneering work in the area of organometallic chemistry.
Fischer's portrait on a commemorative Deutsche Post stamp, 2018
Tomb of Ernst Otto Fischer
In organometallic chemistry, a sandwich compound is a chemical compound featuring a metal bound by haptic, covalent bonds to two arene ligands. The arenes have the formula CnHn, substituted derivative
Ernst Otto Fischer
…Rhodocene Sandwich compound C. Elschenbroich, A. Salzer ”Organometallics : A Concise Introduction” (2nd Ed) (1992) from Wiley-VCH: Weinheim. ISBN 3-527-28165-7…
1,7,2,3-CpCo(MeC2B3H4)CoCp, the first structurally confirmed multidecker sandwich.
A structurally characterized cobaltacarborane hexadecker.
Carbon wired tetracobaltacarborane 2