Magnesium arenethiolates

The insertion of sulfur into a reactive metal-carbon bond has been known in organic chemistry for some time, but was mainly used to prepare arenethiols (150). However, this method has only recently found its use in the synthesis of pure lithium arenethiolate complexes, which contain potentially intramolecu-larly coordinating heteroatom donor functions (50, 151). It has since then been reported that this method is also applicable for the preparation of lithium areneselenolates and arenetellurolates (152). This route has also been used for the synthesis of bis(arenethiolato)magnesium complexes with intramolecular coordination (153). 

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