InhaltsangabePrologue.- Biographical Sketch.- The Nineteenth Century: A Sequence of Accidental Discoveries.- Transition Metal Carbonyls: From Small Molecules to Giant Clusters.- A Scientific Revolution: The Discovery of the Sandwich Complexes.- One Deck More: The Chemical “Big Mac”.- The Binding of Ethene and Its Congeners: Prototypical Metal ?-Complexes.- Metal Carbenes and Carbynes: The Taming of “Non-existing” Molecules.- Metal Alkyls and Metal Aryls: The “True” Transition Organometallics.- Epilogue.