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How the determination of the nature of the compound di-cyclopentadienyl-iron marked the beginning of the study of organometallic compounds of transition metals.
How the determination of the nature of the compound di-cyclopentadienyl-iron marked the beginning of the study of organometallic compounds of transition metals.
| Module code and title: | S304, The nature of chemistry |
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| Item code: | S304; 23 |
| First transmission date: | 1978 |
| Published: | 1978 |
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| Duration: | 00:24:00 |
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| Producer: | Barrie Whatley |
| Contributors: | Joan Mason; Geoffrey Wilkinson; Albert Cotton; Ernst Otto Fischer |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Cyclopentadienyl; Dicyclopentadienyl; Ferric chloride; Organometallic |
| Footage description: | Footage - Combination of a transition metal with cyclobutadiene (0'05"-0'41") - 1952 Nature journal with Kealy & Pauson paper. Red crystalline compound (1'06"-1'57") - Drawing of Zeise's salt (3'03"-3'44") - Drawing of butadiene iron tricarbonyl (3'53"-5'50") - Model of two equivalent cyclopentadienyl anions (6'59"-7'23") - Model of iron bis-cyclopentadienyl (10'04"-10'16") - Graphic of butterfly structure of cyclopentadienyl iron (11'07"-11'16") - Graphic of high pressure with carbon monoxide producing ironpentacarbonyl (11'32"-11'51") - Graphic of hexacyane ferrate. Graphic of x-ray structure (12'05"-13'04") - Graphic of ferrocene, cobaltocene & nickelocene (13'33"-13'59") - Drawing of sandwich bonding arrangement (14'19"-15'40") - Model of structure with carbonyl ligand & cyclopentadienyl group bonded in the sandwich fashion. Drawing of NMR spectrum (16'22"-19'10") - Spectra recorded from room temperature to -100 degrees (20'01"-21'12"). |
| Master spool number: | 6HT/72280 |
| Production number: | 00525_1231 |
| Videofinder number: | 906 |
| Available to public: | no |
