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Back Cover: Hunting for the Magnesium(I) Species: Formation, Structure, and Reactivity of some Donor‐Free Grignard Compounds (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 36/2012)
Author(s) -
Kruczyński Tomasz,
Pushkarevsky Nikolay,
Henke Patrick,
Köppe Ralf,
Baum Elke,
Konchenko Sergey,
Pikies Jerzy,
Schnöckel Hansgeorg
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201206128
Subject(s) - magnesium , radical , grignard reagent , grignard reaction , reactivity (psychology) , int , metal , cover (algebra) , chemistry , reagent , organic chemistry , computer science , engineering , pathology , medicine , mechanical engineering , alternative medicine , operating system
Even 100 years ago the potential of Grignard compounds had been recognized, leading to a Nobel Prize to F. A. V. Grignard in 1912. Although Grignard reagents are widely used in organic synthesis, the exact nature of the redox process on going from Mg metal via Mg I species is still not fully understood. In their Communication on page 9025 ff. , H. Schnöckel et al. could show experimentally that MgR/MgX radicals are involved in the formation process of Grignard compounds.