User talk:Fishsicles

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Thanks again, and happy editing! Graeme Bartlett (talk) 01:48, 9 May 2024 (UTC)

Suggestions for PrMgBr
A great source of references for procedures is Org Syn.: free, online, top quality, and meets WP:SECONDARY (super-important goal for references). doi 10.15227/orgsyn.006.0054 gives generic alkylmag bromide prep. Your draft redlinks to isopropylmagnesium bromide. "No one" uses that. The dominant reagent is isopropylmagnesium chloride (cheaper, better equiv wt) as can be confirmed by Org. Syn. also.--Smokefoot (talk) 22:24, 5 June 2024 (UTC)


 * Yeah, I've mostly seen iPrMgCl as as the isopropyl equivalent in my own reading, but I'm not quite confident in understanding which Grignards use Cl vs Br predominantly; is it a question of the carbon-halogen bond strength during synthesis? Intuitively that would suggest that -MgCl Grignards are more energy-intensive to produce than -MgBr, but I'm sure there's factors in the finer details that I'm completely oblivious to. Either way, it's one of those things where my sense of "notability" wasn't sure which one to do; thanks for the tip. I've rephrased it to instead link to the chloride, as I think some note of (minimal) isomerism is still "worth having". Fishsicles (talk) 01:38, 6 June 2024 (UTC)
 * well everyone would use chlorides if they could because chlorides are way, way cheaper than bromides. Anyway, iPrMgCl is a commercial transmetalation reagent. Use a Grignard to make a Grignard.  You do what you want, but iPrMgCl is more notable as you can verify by Googling or CAS search.  Best wishes, --Smokefoot (talk) 02:34, 6 June 2024 (UTC)

User:Fishsicles/sandbox
Your article Sodium tetrapropylborate has been made into an article now by Graeme Bartlett  and thus, your sandbox is now completely redundant. Thus i am telling you to completely blank and remove all the contents of your sandbox now and make it an empty sandbox and also remove all corruption it now itself. 117.196.145.52 (talk) 12:09, 6 June 2024 (UTC)


 * The sandbox was the original version of the draft; I hadn't blanked because I wasn't starting on anything new recently, and assumed that since it was my sandbox, nobody else would really be paying attention to it?
 * I wasn't aware users could submit other users' sandboxes. Fishsicles (talk) 11:46, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

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