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Organometals

Organometals


Organometallic compounds

An organometallic compounds are organic bonds which consist of a carbon -- metal bond.
Because of the electronegativity the carbon becomes partial negative charged due to the metal being less electronegative than the carbon. 



The most common organomettalic compounds are organolithium and organomagnesium.
These compounds are frequently used as catalysts or reagents, but beware, they can be highly explosive because they can rapidly react with oxygen (air) or water.
Some examples of the preparation of organometals see below:


One of the most known organometallic compound that can be found is VITAMIN B12,
this compound holds as metal the Cobalt atom. However Cobalt only reacts with one bond with one carbon, the rest of its bonds are with nitrogen.
Structure of B12 Vitamin:



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