TY - JOUR
T1 - Multigram Syntheses of Magnesium(I) Compounds Using Alkali Metal Halide Supported Alkali Metals as Dispersible Reducing Agents
AU - Hicks, Jamie
AU - Juckel, Martin
AU - Paparo, Albert
AU - Dange, Deepak
AU - Jones, Cameron
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Copyright 2018 American Chemical Society.
PY - 2018/12/24
Y1 - 2018/12/24
N2 - The alkali metal halide supported alkali metal materials, ca. 5% w/w Na/NaCl and 5% w/w K/KI, are prepared without specialist equipment by rapidly stirring molten alkali metal with finely ground alkali metal halide powder. Scanning electron microscopy reveals the particles of 5% w/w Na/NaCl to lie largely in the 10-100 μM size range. The freely flowing powders are easily dispersible in organic solvents and are used as reducing agents for the facile syntheses of three magnesium(I) compounds, [{HC(MeCNAr) 2 }Mg] 2 , Ar = mesityl (Mes), 2,6-diethylphenyl (Dep), or 2,6-diisopropylphenyl (Dip), which can be obtained in yields of up to 12 g. The potential advantages Na/NaCl and K/KI powders offer to synthetic inorganic/organometallic chemists, relative to currently available alkali metal reducing agents, are discussed.
AB - The alkali metal halide supported alkali metal materials, ca. 5% w/w Na/NaCl and 5% w/w K/KI, are prepared without specialist equipment by rapidly stirring molten alkali metal with finely ground alkali metal halide powder. Scanning electron microscopy reveals the particles of 5% w/w Na/NaCl to lie largely in the 10-100 μM size range. The freely flowing powders are easily dispersible in organic solvents and are used as reducing agents for the facile syntheses of three magnesium(I) compounds, [{HC(MeCNAr) 2 }Mg] 2 , Ar = mesityl (Mes), 2,6-diethylphenyl (Dep), or 2,6-diisopropylphenyl (Dip), which can be obtained in yields of up to 12 g. The potential advantages Na/NaCl and K/KI powders offer to synthetic inorganic/organometallic chemists, relative to currently available alkali metal reducing agents, are discussed.
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U2 - 10.1021/acs.organomet.8b00803
DO - 10.1021/acs.organomet.8b00803
M3 - Article
SN - 0276-7333
VL - 37
SP - 4810
EP - 4813
JO - Organometallics
JF - Organometallics
IS - 24
ER -