Promoting of non-transition metal alkylation with organyl halides in the presence of binary systems based on an organometallic Compound and a transition metal compound: IV. The effect of nature of the organometallic component of the binary system on the rate of the stationary process

Using alkylation of commercial zinc and cadmium powders with organic halides in the presence of the organometallic compound-copper(I) iodide binary systems as an example, it has been demonstrated that the rate of the stationary process can be drastically varied depending on the nature of the organometallic component. Both the nature of the metal and the ligand composition of the organometallic compound were significant factors. Activity of the binary systems in the considered process correlates with the organometallic component reactivity upon its transmetalation with the second compulsory component of the binary system (the transition metal compound). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]