Grignard reagent

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

Rarity follows how well known the article is: its views on the French and English Wikipedia over a year, and the number of languages it exists in.

At a glance

Class

Notion

Domain

Science and technology

In collections

Nobody has pulled it yet.

What Wikipedia says

Grignard reagents or Grignard compounds are chemical compounds with the general formula RMgX(S)n, where X is a halide, R is an organic group (normally an alkyl or aryl), S is an ether, and n is usually 2. Usually, the ether groups are omitted from the formula.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Grignard reagent”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: Ben Mills, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.