Wilkinson, Sir Geoffrey

Wilkinson, Sir Geoffrey (1921-96) British chemist whose main work was in the investigation of the organometallic compounds. His study of ferrocene showed that its molecule consisted of an atom of iron sandwiched between two five-sided rings of carbons and hydrogens. Thousands of substances with this kind of structure have since been synthesized and found to be of great chemical importance. He was awarded the 1973 Nobel Prize in chemistry with Ernst Fischer. 

Fischer, Ernst Otto, Federal Republic of Germany, Technical University of Munich, Munich and Wilkinson, Sir Geoffrey, Great Britain, Imperial College, London "For their pioneering work, performed independently, on the chemistry of the or-ganometallic, so called sandwich compounds."... 

Wilkinson, Sir Geoffrey (1921-96) British chemist. Wilkinson did a lot of notable work on sandwich compounds , i.e. molecules such as ferrocene in which an iron atom is sandwiched between two carbon rings which each have five sides. Wilkinson studied many organo-metallic compounds including RhCl(P(CgH5)3). 

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