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To probe production of [BDIMg]•, the reaction of 1
with 9,10-dihydroanthracene or 1,4-cyclohexadiene
was conducted and no evidence for hydride abstrac-
tion observed under the conditions presented in Ta-
ble 1 (Figure 4b). Further to this, the reaction of 1
with C6F6 is not inhibited by addition of either radical
trap (Figure 4c). In combination these experiments
suggest that neither [BDIMg]• nor organic radicals
are reaction intermediates in carbon–fluorine bond
cleavage. In summary, we report the first example of
a homogeneous equivalent of Grignard formation.
Addition of carbon–fluorine bonds of fluorinated
arenes across the Mg–Mg bond of a simple coordina-
tion complex proceeds rapidly in solution. We are
continuing to study the mechanism and scope of this
reaction. We aim develop further chemical transfor-
mations of this new generation of Grignard reagents
and are currently investigating reactions with a se-
ries of electrophiles.
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ASSOCIATED CONTENT
The Supporting Information is available free of
charge on the ACS Publications website. Experi-
mental procedures, details of the DFT studies, single
crystal Xray data and multinuclear NMR spectra
(PDF). X-ray crystallographic data for 2a-d and 4 (cif)
AUTHOR INFORMATION
Corresponding Author *m.crimmin@imperial.ac.uk
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
We are grateful to the Royal Society for provision of a
University Research Fellowship (MRC) and to the
Leverhulme
Trust
(RPG-2015-248)
and
ERC
12. Currently we cannot discriminate a kinetic effect, that the
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