Literature
No need for a drybox or a solvent still. Simply cannulate Rieke® Metals in THF into a reaction flask under an atmosphere of argon or nitrogen.
Rieke® Highly Reactive Zinc
The use of CuI is patented by Rieke Metals, Inc.
For a full paper on the direct formation of fuctionalized Organozinc reagents and their reactions with acid chlorides, alpha,beta-unsaturated ketones and allylic, aryl, and vinyl halides, see: L. Zhu, R. Wehmeyer and R. Rieke. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 56 (1991) 1445.
For experimental details see: Reuben D. Rieke and Mark V. Hanson, Chapter 2, "Practical Approach in Organozinc Reagents" Edited by Paul Knochel and Philip Jones (Oxford University Press).
For detailed mechanistic studies and relative rates of reactions, see: A. Guijarro, D.M. Rosenberg and R.D. Rieke, J. of the American Chemical Society 121 (1999) 4155.
For a review of Rieke® Highly Reactive Zinc chemistry, see: Reuben D. Rieke and Mark V. Hanson, Tetrahedron, 53 (1997) 1925 and leading references.
Rieke® Magnesium
For a review of Rieke® Magnesium chemistry, see: Reuben D. Rieke and Mark V. Hanson, Tetrahedron, 53 (1997) 1925 and leading references.
For more details and references see: R.D. Rieke, et al, Chapter 4, “Handbook of Grignard Reagents” Edited by Gary S. Silverman and Philip E. Rakita, Marcel Dekker, Inc. 1996.
Polymers
For physical properties and additional references for our regioregular and regiorandom 3-alkyl polythiophenes see:
T. Chen and R.D. Rieke, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 114 (1992) 10087.
T. Chen and R.D. Rieke, Synth. Mat, 60 (1993) 175.
T. Chen, X. Wu, and R.D. Rieke, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 117 (1995) 233.
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