Coordination CompoundHard
Question
Which statement is true for ferrocene ?
Options
A.All Fe-C are of equal length
B.It has sandwich type structure
C.It was the first discovered organometallic compound
D.All of these.
Solution
Ferrocene was the first organometallic compound discovered by G. Wilkinson in 1957.The bonding in these aromatic sandwich type structure is better considered as π- bonding involving the lateral overlap of xz and dyz orbials on fe with the delocalized π- aromatic orbital from each cylopentadienyl ring. All the five C. atoms are equidistant from Fe. Hence all of these statement are true.
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