Chromium complex compounds 174 Inorganic Syntheses

Ernst Otto Fischer (bom 1918) was a student of Walter Hieber at Technische Hochschule Miinchen where he received his Ph.D. degree in 1948. He elucidated the molecular stmcture of ferrocene shortly after this compound was discovered. Further highlights in his life s work were the synthesis of dibenzene-chromium (C6H5)2Cr in 1955, the discoveries of the first metal carbene (1967), and the first me-tal-carbyne complex (1971). In 1964 he succeeded Walter Hieber to the chair of inorganic chemistry at Technische Hochschule Miinchen from which he retired in 1985. He received the Nobel prize for chemistry jointly with Geoffrey Wilkinson (Imperial College London) in 1973. 

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