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Ludwig Mond, German-born chemist and British industrialist who discovered the metal carbonyls (born 1839)
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Ludwig Mond
British chemist and businessman (1839–1909)
Ludwig Mond FRS was a German-born British chemist and industrialist. He discovered an important, previously unknown, class of compounds called metal carbonyls.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Metal carbonyl
Coordination complexes of transition metals with carbon monoxide ligands
Metal carbonyls are coordination complexes of transition metals with carbon monoxide ligands. Metal carbonyls are useful in organic synthesis and as catalysts or catalyst precursors in homogeneous catalysis, such as hydroformylation and Reppe chemistry. In the Mond process,…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)