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card_zero 3 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Aromatic 5-silicon rings synthesized at last

Doesn't this count as organic? Ferrocene smells of camphor, apparently. https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/ferrocene

jfengel 3 months ago [–]

It is organic; it's mostly carbon. The presence of a metal atom doesn't make it inorganic. To be inorganic it has to have no carbons (or at least, not in the backbone of the molecule).

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