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(Cyclobutadiene)iron tricarbonyl

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A few links to online resources.

• The Organometallic HyperTextbook. Online articles "meant for students who are starting out in the area of organometallic chemistry as well as those who wish to review and interrelate concepts for their class, oral exams or placement tests." That's you, so check it out! Has some useful exercises in electron counting and a periodic table challenge.
• The Wikipedia is a great starting point for research, often containing reference to key publications. It's a bit patchy on organometallic chemistry, a deficiency that you will help remedy during this course!
• The sidebar pictures on the left of each page originate from the ACS journal Organometallics. Other journals with an organometallic focus are the Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, the European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, and Dalton Transactions.
• Mark Winter's WebElements. Compendious site based around the periodic table.
• The Orbitron, by the same author - a gallery of atomic orbitals and molecular orbitals.
• Glasgow artist Murray Robertson's Visual Elements. Another periodic table on the web, science meets art.
• Organometallic chemists won Nobel Prizes in 1912, 1963, 1973, 1979, 2001, 2005 and 2010.
• Naming of organometallic complexes is complicated, sufficiently so that in most papers reference is usually made to a formula or to a numbered figure. Organometallic nomenclature () combines the nomenclature of organic and coordination chemistry.