Magnesium-Mercuric chloride

Place 8 0 g. of magnesium turnings or ribbon and 80 ml. of the dry benzene in the flask. Prepare a solution of 9-0 g. of mercuric chloride in 50 ml. of the dry acetone, transfer it to the dropping-funnel, and then allow it to enter the flask slowly at first, and then more rapidly, so that the addition takes about 3-5 minutes. The reaction usually starts shortly after the initial addition of the mercuric chloride solution if it is delayed, it may then start vigorously, and the flask may have to be cooled in water to prevent escape of acetone through the condenser. 

In some cases, the Grignard reaction can be performed intramolecularly. For example, treatment of 5-bromo-2-pentanone with magnesium and a small amount of mercuric chloride in THE produced 1-methyl-1-cyclobutanol in 60% yield. Other four- and five-membered ring compounds were also prepared by this procedure. Similar closing of five- and six-membered rings was achieved by treatment of a 6- or s-halocarbonyl compound, not with a metal, but with a dianion derived from nickel... 

Magnesium fluorosilicate Mercuric chloride Nickel chloride Nickel sulphate Potassium bisulphate Potassium bisulphite Potassium sulphite Silver nitrate... 

ATP and magnesium were required for the activation of acetate. Acetylations were inhibited by mercuric chloride suggesting an SH group was involved in the reaction either on the enzyme or, like lipoic acid, as a cofactor. Experiments from Lipmann s laboratory then demonstrated that a relatively heat-stable coenzyme was needed—a coenzyme for acetylation—coenzyme A (1945). The thiol-dependence appeared to be associated with the coenzyme. There was also a strong correlation between active coenzyme preparations and the presence in them of pantothenic acid—a widely distributed molecule which was a growth factor for some microorganisms and which, by 1942-1943, had been shown to be required for the oxidation of pyruvate. 

Diethyl ether, Dichloromethylphosphine, Ethyl alcohol, N,N-Diethylamine, 2-Dimethylaminomethanol, Rhombic sulfur Acetylene, Arsenic trichloride. Aluminum chloride Acetylene, Arsenic trichloride. Mercuric chloride, Hydrochloric acid Methylene chloride. Magnesium metal turnings, Tetrahydrofuran, Arsenic trichloride, Hexanes... 

Sodium azide, Lead acetate, Water Picric acid. Sodium hydroxide. Lead nitrate Styphinic acid. Sodium hydroxide, Lead-II-nitrate Styphinic acid. Magnesium carbonate. Lead nitrate. Nitric acid Phloroglucinol, Glacial acetic acid. Sodium nitrite. Lead nitrate Acetylene, Arsenic trichloride. Mercuric chloride. Hydrochloric acid... 

Pinacol possesses the unusual property of forming a crystalline hexahydrate, m.p. 45°, and the pinacol is separated in this form from the unreaoted acetone and the isopropyl alcohol. The magnesium is conveniently amalgamated by dissolving mercuric chloride in a portion of the. acetone mercury is then liberated by the reaction ... 

All metallic chlorides, except silver chloride and mercurous chloride, are soluble in H.O. but lead chloride, cuprous chloride and thallium chloride are only slightly soluble. Metallic chlorides when heated melt, and volaiilize or decompose, e.g.. sodium chloride, mp 804 (2 calcium, strontium, barium chloride volatilize at red heal magnesium chloride crystals yield magnesium oxide residue and hydrogen chloride cupric chloride yields cuprous chloride and chlorine. Sec also Chlorine Chlorinated Organics. Halides Hypochlorites and Sodium Chloride. 

Phenyl selenide, CeHg.SeH.1—This selenide may be obtained as follows (1) Selenium tetrachloride is allowed to react with benzene in the presence of aluminium chloride. (2) Magnesium phenyl bromide in ether solution is treated with finely divided selenium and the addition product treated with cold hydrochloric acid. The ether layer is then removed, the extracted solution treated with more ether and the extracts combined, then shaken with one equivalent of sodium hydroxide, calculated on the basis of the total amount of selenium used, and dissolved in water to make a 25 per cent, solution. The ether solution is then dried with calcium chloride, the ether removed and the residue distilled, diphenyl diselenide and diphenyl selenide, B.pt. 303° C., being obtained. The sodium hydroxide solution on acidification with a slight excess of concentrated hydrochloric acid, followed by three more extractions with ether, gives on removal of the solvent almost pure phenyl selenide, B.pt. 182° C. The product melts at 60° C., and is insoluble in water, but dissolves in alcohol mercuric chloride gives a white precipitate.2... 

It will be noted that in the Grignard reactions so far described, only bromo- or iodo-compounds are mentioned. Chlorine compounds do not enter so readily into this reaction to induce them to react it is usually necessary to add a crystal of iodine (B., 38, 2759), or mercuric chloride (C., 1907, I., 872), or a previously prepared magnesium solution (B., 38, 1746 C., 1907, I., 455), or a small amount of Gilman s catalyst (Rec., 1928, 47, 19), which is prepared by heating an alloy of Mg containing 12-75% of Cu with about 20% iodine in vacuo. 

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