Lithium chemistry

Lithium chemistry Lithium is an alkali metal, electronic configuration ls 2s forming a... 

Liang, C.H. Huang, T. Chen. Boron-Lithium Chemistry in PWR Primary Coolant. Ultrapure Journal. Tall Oaks Publishing, Inc., USA, November 1992. 

For a discussion, see Wakefield, B.J. Organolithium Methods, Academic Press NY, 1988, p. 67 Sapse, A.M. Schleyer, P.v.R. Lithium Chemistry A Theoretical arui Experimental Overview, Wiley, NY, 1995. 

The diversity of lithium chemistry has been described. The reaction chemistry of the group-IA metals and their applied chemistry have been reviewed. Physical data have also been compiled". These sources update several earlier reviews... 

The same chiral modifier used in the previous lithium chemistry also provided the best result in this case, with as high as 83% ee. Interestingly, the countercation also had a significant effect on the enantioselectivity. For example, with the chlo-romagnesium acetylide, the desired adduct 53 was obtained with 87% ee but only -50% ee was obtained with the bromo- and iodomagnesium acetylide. 

Batteries have been developed from many pairs of chemicals capable of being oxidized and reduced. Some systems are rechargeable after the chemicals in the battery have been exhausted, the reactions can be reversed by the application of an external source of electricity. The lead-acid automobile battery is a familiar example. In many applications, such as cell phones and laptop computers, the weight of a portable electricity supply is critical. This has led to the development of batteries based on lightweight lithium chemistry, for which challenges still remain. 

Sapse, A.-M. and Von Rague Schleyer, P. (eds.), Lithium Chemistry A Theoretical and Experimental Overview, John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1995. 

Pauer F, Power PP (1994) In Sapse A-M, Schleyer PvR (eds) Lithium Chemistry, A Theoritical and Experimental Overview, John Wiley, New York, Chap 9... 

Of course, it is not without precedence as there are already various reviews and textbooks in the area. Most closely related to this work are the reviews by Setzer and Schleyer and by Weiss °. A textbook edited by Sapse and Schleyer contains chapters on various topics of lithium chemistry. Three reviews by StaUce, Harder and by Jutzi and Burford concentrate on cyclopentadienyl organometallic derivatives, containing also the s-block derivatives. Two reviews deal with the heavier alkali metal organics, the first written by Schade and Schleyer , the second by Smith . There are several chapters on lithium organics within more general metal organic publications ... 

A. Maercker, in Lithium Chemistry (Eds. A.-M. Sapse and P. v. R. Schleyer), WUey Inter-sdence, New York, 1995. 

From the lithium chemistry point of view, the carbon-fluorine bond cannot be considered as a carbon-halogen bond because alkyl or aryl fluorides are not adequate starting materials in lithiation processes, due to the fact that this bond is the strongest that carbon can form . On the other hand, a possible reductive defluorination process could be important from an environmental point of view due to the difficult degradation of fluoro derivatives in nature . 

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