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Why organic chemistry is hard (2)

April 14, 2011 By James Ashenhurst 5 Comments

Today's post is about how a simple reaction can lead to all kinds of complications. I'm talking about the Grignard reaction here, although the principles can be applied to other reactions as well. The Grignard reaction is simple enough. It involves a Grignard reagent - that's some kind of … [Read more...]

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