An organometallic compound is an organic compound in which a metal atom is attached directly to a carbon, with the exclusion of metallic salts of organic acids. Organometallic compounds have been prepared using practically all the metals. The first...

Organometallic chemistry is the study of chemical compounds containing bonds between carbon and a metal.[1] Since many compounds without such bonds are chemically similar, an alternative may be compounds containing metal-element bonds of a largely...