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Offline shrikantvarma

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dimerization during grignard formation?
« on: July 22, 2010, 09:05:38 AM »
how to avoid dimerization while doing grignard  reaction?

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Re: dimerization during grignard formation?
« Reply #1 on: July 23, 2010, 09:45:58 AM »
You mean dimerization of the grignard? Using a more polar solvent sometimes helps, because it coordinates to the grignard molecules and stops them coordinating to one another.

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Re: dimerization during grignard formation?
« Reply #2 on: July 31, 2010, 08:51:30 PM »
TMEDA can be used to reduce grignard aggregation.

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