The Next Highlight Fischers Metal Carbynes

Kreis from 16 and BI3) [43] that the seminal paper about the synthesis and characterization of the first carbyne metal complex was submitted to Angewandte Chemie. When Fischer went to Stockholm in December 1973, he had a ball-and-stick model of Cr(CCH3)(CO)4l in his luggage, demonstrating to the audience of his Nobel Lecture that a transition metal compound with a metal-carbon triple bond is not a fantasy, but really exists. 

A new field of research in organometallic chemistry was now open, and in the following decade more than 200 articles were published on Fischer-type Carbyne Complexes . The results have been surveyed in several reviews [44-48] and in a monograph [49], which was presented to Ernst Otto Fischer on his 70th birthday. His short comment on the impressive development was We planted a sapling and it became a forest [24]. 

---