The beginnings of synthetic organic chemistry: Zinc alkyls and the Kazan' school

Lewis, David E.

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The beginnings of synthetic organic chemistry: Zinc alkyls and the Kazan' school

Author(s)

Lewis, David E.

Issue Date

2002-03-15

Keyword(s)

• History
• Chemistry
• History synthetic org chem zinc alkyl

Abstract

The rise of organometallic compds. as tools in org. synthesis is probably best traced to the development of the Grignard addn. reaction in 1900 but the real origins of organometallic synthesis date from some 30 yr earlier in the city of Kazan' at European Russia's eastern frontier. Modern org. synthesis would be inconceivable without the formation of carbon-carbon bonds by the reaction between an organometallic reagent and a carbonyl compd. Thus, modern org. synthesis owes a great debt, to the chemists at Kazan' University and their pioneering chem. with zinc alkyls.

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Division of the History of Chemistry

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1053-4385

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text

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article

Language

eng

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https://hdl.handle.net/2142/127530

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https://doi.org/10.70359/bhc2002v027p037

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