Russian journal of general chemistry

Catalytic hydromagnesiation of 2-alkylbutadienes

NB Viktorov, LM Zubritskii

Index: Viktorov; Zubritskii Russian Journal of General Chemistry, 2001 , vol. 71, # 11 p. 1773 - 1785

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Abstract

Our studies of the reaction of isoprene with alkyl- magnesium halides in the presence of transition metal complexes [1, 2] showed that the major reaction path- way is hydromagnesiation of the diene with formation of linear products containing both dimeric 3,7-dimeth- yl-2,7-octadienylmagnesium halide and monomeric 2- and 3-methyl-2-butenylmagnesium halides. At the same time, telomeric products were also detected. They formed in smaller amounts, and their relative content ...