The reducing action of a mixture of magnesium iodide (or bromide) and magnesium on aromatic ketones. Probable formation of magnesium subiodide (or subbromide …

M Gomberg, WE Bachmann

Index: Gomberg; Bachmann Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1927 , vol. 49, p. 252

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Abstract

The alkaline-earth metals have been reduced from normal to lower valence either by fusion at 80O-12OO0 of the mixture of the halide salt and metal, or by electrolysis of the anhydrous salt at elevated temperatures. 2 Although the reaction is reversible, MeXz+ Me E 2MeX, nevertheless some of these unstable subhalides have been actually isolated in sufficient purity for analysis. It was also reported3 that anomalous suboxides result when oxal@ tes ...