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(organic chemistry) Any of a class of organic compounds containing two cyclopentadienyl anions and a transition metal whose bonding involves overlap of ns and np orbitals of the metal with molecular orbitals of appropriate symmetry of each cyclopentadienyl ring; the rings are parallel to each other, or sometimes canted.

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Related dictionary entries include metallocycle, cyclopentadienyl, metallacyclopentene, metallocarbene, metallacyclopentane, methylcyclopentadienyl.

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