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Grignard reagent
Any of a family of organometalic compounds of great importance in laboratory and industrial chemical synthesis. Grignard reagents are made by reacting alkyl halides (or aryl halides) with magnesium in an ether solution, they are commonly represented as RMgX, where R is an alkyl group or aryl (see aromatic compound) group. They are powerful nucleophiles, and react with many compounds, introducing the group R.
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