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Organometallic chemistry is the study of the nature of chemical compounds which possess chemical bonds between metals and carbon, and their chemical reactions. The field overlaps with both inorganic chemistry and organic chemistry and is usually considered either from the perspective of inorganic coordination chemistry or organic synthesis. Important applications of organometallic chemistry include catalysis in industrial chemistry and even biological. Since the award of the first Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1901, there have been six prizes given that relate directly to organometallic chemistry – in 1912, to Victor Grignard for the discovery of the Grignard reagent and to Paul Sabatier for the discovery of metal-catalysed hydrogenation of organic compounds; in 1963, to Karl Ziegler and Giulio Natta for alkene polymerisation using Ziegler–Natta catalysts; in 1973, to Ernst Otto Fischer and Geoffrey Wilkinson for their independent work on sandwich compounds; in 1979, to Herbert C. Brown for his work on hydroboration–oxidation of alkenes (the Prize was shared with Georg Wittig for his work on the Wittig reaction which is considered a purely organic process); in 2005, to Yves Chauvin, Robert H. Grubbs, and Richard R. Schrock for their work on olefin metathesis; and, in 2010, to Richard F. Heck, Ei-ichi Negishi, and Akira Suzuki for their work on palladium-catalysed cross coupling reactions.