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Anyone have experience forming grignards from chlorobenzene

draculic acid69 - 12-8-2018 at 23:09

Just read clorobenzene has difficulty forming a grignard reagent in et2o if it forms at all.apparently it works in thf but this is hard to get for me and I was under the assumption that clorobenzene just takes longer to initiate but it would still happen in et2o.does anyone have any experience with clorobenzene in ether or thf ? Would like to know if et2o is a no go and thf is a must or if there are any tips or tricks to forming phenylmagnesium chloride.

woelen - 12-8-2018 at 23:17

Don't post the same question in multiple forums. One time is enough and you will not get more answers if you post the same thing multiple times. I close this one, the one in the organic chemistry section is left open for discussion.