Preparation of New Classes of Aliphatic, Allylic, and Benzylic Zinc and Copper Reagents by the Insertion of Zinc Dust into Organic Halides, Phosphates, and Sulfonates

Article abstract of DOI:10.1021/jo00046a026

The insertion of zinc dust into primary alkyl chlorides, bromides, phosphates, and sulfonates in a polar solvent (DMPU, DMA) and in the presence of a catalytic amount of LiI (0.2 equiv) provides new organozinc reagents of the type RZnX (X = Cl, Br, OSO2R,