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Organocobalt compound
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Organocobalt chemistry.
Organocobalt chemistry is the chemistry of organometallic compounds containing a carbon to cobaltchemical bond. Organocobalt compounds are involved in several organic reactions and the important biomolecule vitamin B12 has a cobalt-carbon bond. Many organocobalt compounds exhibit useful catalytic properties, the preeminent example being dicobalt octacarbonyl.