1. What have you you learnt about stable electronic configurations for organometallics ?

2. Is the dimer really the final product of the polymerization of cyclopentadiene? See suggested reading under ferrocene hints

3. What could drive the hydrolysis of SnPh₄?

4. The cyclopentadienide has 6p-electrons, is cyclic and planar. What is AlCl₃ usually used for (see O-Chem)? What happens if you react a strong nucleophile with a compound that has good leaving groups?

5. See O-Chem lab (Diels-Alder experiment in Chem 130Al or 30BL)

6. What are the bond energies of M-Cl compared to M-O?