Talk:Magnesocene

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Here is my feedback for peer review:

Overall, I think this is a great Wikipedia article: a strong and useful summary of research performed on this compound. Here are my suggestions for improvement:

I noticed the Schwarz source has interesting potential use in magnesium ion batteries. It might be worth citing this and other potential applications in the first paragraph.

Because you mentioned the vertical and horizontal procedures giving different levels of purity, I was hoping you would clarify the identity of the impurity (I’m assuming starting material?), but upon checking the Barber reference, I see that no characterization of impurity is given.

In my opinion, it would be useful to incorporate some of the optimization information in the Maslennikov paper. Rather than only listing the options for alternative catalysts, it would be helpful to know the effects on rate and yield. If someone is looking to use magnesocene and is starting with this page as a first resource, these sorts of details would be nice to know. I agree with your choice to omit the mechanistic information from the same article, which, though interesting, is potentially less relevant for a Wiki article.

Word choice comment: “Metallation of Cp…” This may be a gray area, but I consider Cp as a ligand which coordinates to a metal and conforms to its bonding preferences, whereas I generally reserve terms like “metallation” for macrocycles (i.e. porphyrin) which simply accept or trap a metal into a rigid framework. However, the Dzhemilev article uses that term, so perhaps it is more widely accepted for cyclopentadiene than I thought.

The ionic/covalent discussion is interesting. I would recommend including more of the argument preceding the computational work: Cotton and Aleksanyan base their ionic argument on IR evidence, the others use electron diffraction to argue for a covalent model. Tracing some of these lines of thinking will add to the conclusions proposed with theory.

I also would suggest adding an MO picture or two based on the Faegri article calculations to illustrate the bonding character in these systems, especially if the visual makes it very obvious that the bonding orbitals contain very little Mg d-orbital character.Johbrbr (talk) 23:21, 28 November 2018 (UTC)

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Intro Needs structure of magnesocene at the top Needs bolding of magnesocene in the introduction In your first reaction you should put conditions on top of the arrow for a better description You could supplement the description of the ‘vertical setup’ used by Barbar with an image Original synthesis has such great detail in it whereas subsequent syntheses do not – feels imbalanced

Properties Do they talk about bond lengths in the gas-phase electron diffraction experiments? (can confirm yes they do I would recommend putting those in the wiki article as well) You mention ‘theoretical calculations’ – definitely be more specific (was it NBO, AIMS, DFT etc etc etc ). Also it is surprising that there has only been a single computation paper about this compound (and from over 30 years ago too!)

Synthesis Conditions under arrows for reactivity — Preceding unsigned comment added by Brytang (talk • contribs) 01:54, 1 December 2018 (UTC)