N-Butylmercuric chloride explained

n-Butylmercuric chloride is an organic mercury salt that is used as a catalyst and a precursor to other organomercuric compounds.[1]

Preparation

n-Butylmercuric chloride is made by reacting n-butylmagnesium bromide with mercury chloride.It can also be prepared by reacting 1-butene with mercury acetate.[2]

References

  1. Ito . Hiroshi . Trinque . Brian . Kasai . Paul . January 22, 2008 . Penultimate effect in radical copolymerization of 2-trifluoromethylacrylates . Journal of Polymer Science Part A: Polymer Chemistry . 46 . 5 . 1559–1565 . 10.1002/pola.22467 . 2008JPoSA..46.1559I . Wiley Online Library.
  2. Larock . Richard C. . Brown . Herbert Charles . 1970-04-01 . Organoboranes. X. Fast reaction of organoboranes with mercuric acetate. Convenient procedure for the conversion of terminal olefins into alkylmercuric salts via hydroboration-mercuration . Journal of the American Chemical Society . 92 . 8 . 2467–2471 . 10.1021/ja00711a043 . 0002-7863.

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