English
ferrocene
Blend of ferrous + benzene, coined by Mark Whiting, a postdoc with Robert Burns Woodward.
The story
Blend of ferrous + benzene, coined by Mark Whiting, a postdoc with Robert Burns Woodward.
Today it means
noun Any of a class of metallocenes containing an iron atom between two cyclopentadienyl rings; especially the simplest of the class bis-cyclopentadienyl iron.
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Etymograph / ferrocene