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The Interfacial Chemistry of Grignard Reagent Formation: Reactions of Clean Mg(0001) Surfaces

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The Grignard reagent, RMgX, where R is a hydrocarbon group and X is a halogen, is one of the more important and versatile reagents for organic synthesis [1]. It is formed in a heterogeneous reaction between magnesium and an organic halide in an appropriate organic solvent [2–5]

$$ {\rm{RX + Mg}} \to {\rm{RMgX + RR + Mg}}{{\rm{X}}_{\rm{2}}}{\rm{ + other by - products}} $$
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  1. Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M Univesrity, College Station, TX, 77840, USA

    Juan B. Abreu, Jean M. Sanabria-Chinchilla & Manuel P. Soriaga

  2. Department of Chemistry, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, 30602, USA

    John F. Garst & John L. Stickney

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Abreu, J.B., Sanabria-Chinchilla, J.M., Soriaga, M.P., Garst, J.F., Stickney, J.L. (2002). The Interfacial Chemistry of Grignard Reagent Formation: Reactions of Clean Mg(0001) Surfaces. In: Thin Films: Preparation, Characterization, Applications. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0775-8_13

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