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Inside Back Cover: Molecular Salt Effects in the Gas Phase: Tuning the Kinetic Basicity of [HCCLiCl] − and [HCCMgCl 2 ] − by LiCl and MgCl 2 (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 41/2014)
Author(s) -
Khairallah George N.,
da Silva Gabriel,
O'Hair Richard A. J.
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201408030
Subject(s) - reagent , chemistry , group 2 organometallic chemistry , salt (chemistry) , reactivity (psychology) , inorganic chemistry , metal , kinetic energy , molecule , chemical reaction , organic chemistry , medicine , alternative medicine , pathology , physics , quantum mechanics
The mystery of why water and salt contaminants destroy organometallic reagents has been solved by G. N. Khairallah, G. da Silva, and R. A. J. O'Hair in their Communication on page 10979 ff. The addition of an individual salt molecule to an organometallic reagent dramatically enhances its reactivity towards water. This second metal center plays an active role in altering the fundamental chemical transformations that take place when water attacks the organometallic compound.