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Also known as di(cyclopentadienyl)osmium

Osmocene is an organoosmium compound found as a white solid. It is a metallocene with the formula Os(C5H5)2.

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Osmocene is an organoosmium compound found as a white solid. It is a metallocene with the formula Os(C5H5)2.

== Synthesis == Osmocene is commercially available. It may be prepared by the reaction of osmium tetroxide with hydrobromic acid followed by zinc and cyclopentadiene.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “osmocene” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.