Facile Synthesis of Well-Defined Sodium Hydridoalkylzincates(II)

摘要

As described in a cover essay by Seyferth,Edward Frank-land first reported his discovery of diethylzinc in 1849.In 1858,J.Alfred Wanklyn,who was an assistant to Frankland in 1856,discovered that diethylzinc reacts with sodium to form a crystalline compound,which he formulated as a "double compound of sodium-ethyl with zinc-ethyl".