The experimentally observed inversion at the RCH2Li carbon within alkyl-lithium aggregates is indicated by ab initio molecular orbital calculations on model compounds to involve novel RCH2Li2 fragments in which two lithium atoms stabilize a planar RCH2 group.
T. Clark, P. v. R. Schleyer and J. A. Pople, J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun., 1978, 137 DOI: 10.1039/C39780000137
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