Arne Haaland

Arne Haaland (15 February 1936 – 13 October 2023) was a Norwegian chemist.

[2] Haaland ran a laboratory for gas electron diffraction.

He, his co-workers and colleagues determined the structures of umpteen important chemical compounds in the gas phase.

The list of such structure determinations includes the controversially debated beryllocene,[3][4] dibenzene chromium,[5] ferrocene,[4] the structure of the phosphorus oxides P4O10 and P4O9, trimethylamuminium[6] and its adducts with NMe3,[7] and the first stable silylene.

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