new, more complex organic product.
The Grignard reagent, named after the French chemist Victor Grignard who developed the
reagent as a useful organic intermediate, is a organomagnesium halide derived from the reaction
of an organohalide with magnesium metal in an anhydrous aprotic solvent, usually diethyl ether
(Eq. 1). Theoretically, most organohalides will form Grignard reagents, but organobromides or
organoiodides are usually chosen because they are more reactive than organochlorides.
Organofluorides…
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