Acta Chemica Scandinavica

Mechanism of the Grignard Addition Reaction. XVI. Homolytic and Concerted Mechanisms in the Reaction of a, ß-Unsaturated Carbonyl Compounds with …

T Holm

Index: Holm, Torkil Acta Chemica Scandinavica, 1991 , vol. 45, # 9 p. 925 - 929

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Abstract

Kinetic measurements have shown that the addition of Grignard reagents to a, ßunsaturated carbonyl compounds takes place either by a concerted mechanism or by a homolytic mechanism. Phenylmagnesium bromide, which is incapable of homolysis, reacts rapidly in a