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DOI: 10.1039/A804191A (Paper) Reference Section for: Chem. Soc. Rev., 1999, 28, 17-23

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

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Friedrich Bickelhaupt

Abstract

Both organomagnesium compounds (Grignard reagents) and organolithium compounds are of utmost importance in synthesis. New developments in the area of difunctional organometallic compounds will be described against a historical background in which the author’s interest gradually drifted from organolithium chemistry, in particular the deep red ortho-dilithiobenzene, to its magnesium analogue, the tetrameric ortho-phenylenemagnesium. The latter was applied in the synthesis of novel 1,2-disubstituted benzene derivatives such as 9,10-dimetallatriptycenes.

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