Ferrocene structure (IMAGE)

Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) Graduate University

Ferrocene structure

Caption

The molecular structure of ferrocene, with iron (red), carbon (grey) and hydrogen (white) atoms shown. In this structure, iron formally has 18 electrons in its outermost shell (5 from each ring and 8 from the iron atom, in a neutral counting method).

Credit

Satoshi Takebayashi, using a publicly available cif data file from the CCDC

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