What occurs when a Grignard reagent such as methyl magnesium bromide is protonated?

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anor277
Oct 7, 2017

Well, the Grignard is protonated....and we gets methane....

Explanation:

Grignards are strongly basic, and will deprotonate ethanol... And so..

#EtOH + MeMgBr rarr MeHuarr+EtO^(-)(MgBr)^+#

We could label the ethanol with deuterium to get labelled methane....

#EtO""^2H + MeMgBr rarr Me""^2Huarr+EtO^(-)(MgBr)^+#

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