Crossing Organolithium Compounds with Organolithiuni Compounds: Molecular Squares and a Cage-Encapsulating Reaction

摘要

In reporting the first organolithium compounds nearly a century ago, Schlenk's legacy was to gift to the world functional and fascinating tools that have evolved to play a monumental part in the development of modern chemistry. Synthetic chemists, whether in academia or industry, use them routinely, generally as bases or as nucleophiles for bond construction. One of their special fascinations lies in the vast variety of structures adopted by them; however, it is the dynamic interplay between these structures that pose many challenging mechanistic questions.