Brimm, Eugene

Submitted by Loren C. Hurd and Eugene Brimm Checked by W. A. TAEBELf and B. S. Hopkins ... 

While there is no doubt that Peter Pauson and Samuel Miller and their coworkers have the priority regarding the isolation and characterization of FeCioHio, they were probably not the first to have prepared this novel organo-metallic compound. Eugene O. Brimm from Linde Air Products, nowadays well known for the first synthesis of Mn2(CO)i0 (see Chap. 4), was one of several industrial chemists who, after reading the communication by Kealy and Pauson, wanted to prepare a sample of the new substance. For this reason, he asked a colleague at Union Carbide (at that time Linde s parent company) whether they had any cyclopentadiene. The reply, that they not longer did so, was accompanied by the statement that, some years previously, they had... 

The Board of Editors takes great pleasure in announcing the election to membership on the Editorial Board of Dr. Eugene O. Brimm, of Linde Air Products Company Dr. Joseph J. Katz, of the Argonne National Laboratory and Prof. Geoffrey Wilkinson, of the Imperial College, London. 

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