The Kinetics and Mechanism of Grignard Reactions With Active Hydrogen Compounds

The Kinetics and Mechanism of Grignard Reactions With Active Hydrogen Compounds

The kinetics of Zerewkinoff reaction between ethyl magnesium bromide and amines, alcohols and 1- alkynes, which are very weak Bronsted acids, was investigated in detail by gas evolution method in diethyl ether at 25 °C. The reaction was found tobe second order overall and first order with respect to each reactant. SEi mechanism (int- ramolecular electrophilicsubstitution), which the transition State was believed to involve both electrophilic attack by active hydrogen at the a carbon of ethyl magnesium bromide and nucleophilic attack by the conjugate base of very weak acid at the magnesium atom, was proposed.

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