Question
An editor at the Journal of the American Chemical Society wrote to Robert Woodward that although he was accepting his paper on the structure of this compound, he “cannot help feeling that you have been at the hashish again.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this sandwich compound, which is certainly the most famous metallocene.
ANSWER: ferrocene
[10e] Ferrocene unsurprisingly features an atom of this element at its center.
ANSWER: iron
[10h] After not being included with Ernst Fischer and this man for the 1973 Nobel for elucidating ferrocene’s structure, Woodward wrote a letter to the committee in protest stating they had committed a “grave injustice.” This chemist popularized the use of a triphenylphosphine based rhodium complex for hydrogenation.
ANSWER: Geoffrey Wilkinson
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