Characterization and Properties of Metal Alkyls

Another way to trap the alkylmetal complex is to fill the vacant site that opens up on the metal in the insertion with another ligand  

Although oxidative addition can be seen as an insertion of L M into X—Y, the term insertion in organometallic chemistry is reserved for the insertion of a ligand into an M—X bond (Sections 7.1-7.3). 

One final route to alkyls is the attack of a nucleophile on a metal alkene complex, but we will postpone a detailed discussion to Chapter 5. This route is more useful for the synthesis of metal vinyls from alkyne complexes vinyls are also formed from alkyne insertion into M—H bonds  

METAL ALKYLS, ARYLS. AND HYDRIDES AND RELATED o-BONDED LIGANDS 

Reactions of alkyls tend to fall into several general classes  

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