Sandwich compound
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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
1,7,2,3-CpCo(MeC2B3H4)CoCp, the first structurally confirmed multidecker sandwich.
A structurally characterized cobaltacarborane hexadecker.
Carbon wired tetracobaltacarborane 2
Ernst Otto Fischer
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Ernst Otto Fischer was a German chemist who won the Nobel Prize for pioneering work in the area of organometallic chemistry.
Sandwich compound
…atom sandwiched between two parallel cyclopentadienyl rings, had been proposed several years previously by Robert Burns Woodward and, separately, by Ernst Otto Fischer. The structure helped explain puzzles about ferrocene's conformers. This result further demonstrated the power of X-ray crystallography and accelerated…
Fischer's portrait on a commemorative Deutsche Post stamp, 2018
Tomb of Ernst Otto Fischer