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Document Type
Research
Abstract
Many RX compounds enter sluggishly into reaction with magnesium in the preparation of organomagnesium halides. Furthermore, it is actually impossible to form RMgX compounds from some RX compounds. Accordingly, a study is in progress on catalysts and activated magnesium in order to extend the preparation of Grignard reagents. The results so far obtained show that when an alloy containing 121% copper and the remainder magnesium is heated in an evacuated tube at 200° for one hour with about one-half its weight of iodine, the activated alloy thus obtained is superior to that described by Baeyer and used so extensively at present.
Publication Date
1926
Journal Title
Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science
Volume
33
Issue
1
First Page
173
Last Page
174
Copyright
©1926 Iowa Academy of Science, Inc.
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Gilman, Henry and Peterson, J. Merriam
(1926)
"Catalysts and Activated Magnesium in the Preparation of Grignard Reagents,"
Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science, 33(1), 173-174.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/pias/vol33/iss1/29