Travelling the organometallic road: a Wittig student's journey from lithium to magnesium and beyond

Authors
Citation
F. Bickelhaupt, Travelling the organometallic road: a Wittig student's journey from lithium to magnesium and beyond, CHEM SOC RE, 28(1), 1999, pp. 17-23
Citations number
28
Categorie Soggetti
Chemistry
Journal title
CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS
ISSN journal
03060012 → ACNP
Volume
28
Issue
1
Year of publication
1999
Pages
17 - 23
Database
ISI
SICI code
0306-0012(199901)28:1<17:TTORAW>2.0.ZU;2-2
Abstract
Both organomagnesium compounds (Grignard reagents) and organolithium compou nds are of utmost importance in synthesis. New developments in the area of difunctional organometallic compounds will be described against a historica l background in which the author's interest gradually drifted from organoli thium chemistry, in particular the deep red ortho-dilithiobenzene, to its m agnesium analogue, the tetrameric ortho-phenylenemagnesium. The latter was applied in the synthesis of novel 1,2-disubstituted benzene derivatives suc h as 9,10-dimetallatriptycenes.