metallo-organicadj.

1884 Science 5 Sept. 206/2 Bunsen's classical research on cacodyl, proving the possibility of the existence of metallo-organic radicals capable of playing the part of a metal [etc.].

1886 E. F. Smith tr. V. von Richter Chem. Carbon Compounds 141 Most of the metallo-organic compounds can be prepared by the direct action of the metals or their sodium amalgams upon the bromides and iodides of the alkyls.

1890 Webster's Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Metalorganic... Written also metallorganic.

1946 Nature 30 Nov. 791/1 This suggests that some of the polyvalent metal in soil exists as an insoluble metallo-organic complex with some of the organic matter.

1965 Polymer Rev. 8 p. v The Editors invited Professor Andrianov to write a monograph on his pioneering work on metalorganic polymers—or ‘elemento-organic polymers’, as they are called in the Soviet Union.

1981 V. N. McIntyre Entropy Effect iv. 97 The neurophilic metallo-organic molecules concentrated in the cerebrum.

1990 Sci. Amer. Nov. 81/2 [He] ‘buried’ the wires by covering them with a semiconductor layer using a deposition technique..called metallorganic vapor-phase epitaxy.

1997 New Scientist 15 Nov. 93/1 (advt.) The ideal candidate will have a background in the synthesis and characterisation of air-sensitive metalorganic compounds.