1.1 Background Interest in ring-opening polymerization (ROP) reactions has gained
tremendous momentum in the course of the past two decades.(1) While the polymerization …

More than a century old, magnesium Grignard reagents remain essential to the toolbox of
organic chemists. Although similar reagents with the neighbouring group 2 metal Ca have …

Aniline derivatives are frequently encountered in molecules of industrial relevance such as
dyes or antioxidants, which make the development of synthetic methods for the …

Early Main Group Metal Catalysis gives a comprehensive overview of catalytic reactions in
the presence of group 1 and group 2 metals. Chapters are ordered to reaction type, contain …

Efficient protocols for the syntheses of well-defined, solvent-free cations of the large alkaline-
earth (Ae) metals (Ca, Sr, Ba) and their smaller Zn and Mg analogues have been designed …

The Grignard reaction offers a straight forward atom‐economic synthesis of
organomagnesium halides, which undergo redistribution reactions (Schlenk equilibrium) …

Victor Grignard's Nobel Prize-winning preparation of organomagnesium halides (Grignard
reagents) marked the formal beginning of organometallic chemistry with alkaline earth …

Generation of β-diketiminato group 2 cations,[(MeBDI) Ae]+ and [(t-BuBDI) Ae]+(MeBDI= HC
{(Me) CN-2, 6-i-Pr2C6H3} 2; t-BuBDI= HC {(t-Bu) CN-2, 6-i-Pr2C6H3} 2; Ae= Mg or Ca), in …

The large alkaline earths (Ae), calcium, strontium and barium, have in the past 15 years
yielded a brand new generation of heteroleptic molecular catalysts for the production of fine …

The salt metathesis reaction between homoleptic calcium bis (trimethylsilyl) amide [Ca {N
(SiMe3) 2} 2] 2 and “halide-free” methyllithium allowed for the isolation of X-ray-amorphous …