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 | | The compound with the common name ferrocene (Figure 23) has the systematic name bis(5-cyclopentadienyl)iron, where the number of cyclopentadienyl ligands (two) is indicated by the prefix bis and the number of sites of attachment (five) for each of these is indicated by 5. |
 | | All organometallic compounds are potential reducing agents, and those of the electropositive elements are very strong reducing agents because the metal gives up electrons to the carbon, resulting in a polar M-C bond with a partial positive charge on the metal and a negative charge on the carbon. |
 | | The carbonyl ligands in the tetracarbonylnickel molecule project toward the vertices of a tetrahedron (see Figure 24), and thus the structure is referred to as tetrahedral. |
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