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noun
Any of a class of metallocenes containing an iron atom between two cyclopentadienyl rings; especially the simplest of the class bis-cyclopentadienyl iron.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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History
Blend of ferrous + benzene, coined by Mark Whiting, a postdoc with Robert Burns Woodward.
Across languages
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