Neopentyllithium Explained

Neopentyllithium is an organolithium compound with the chemical formula C₅H₁₁Li. Commercially available, it is a strong, non-nucleophilic base sometimes encountered in organometallic chemistry.

Further reading

• Fraenkel . Gideon . Chow . Albert . Winchester . William R. . Structure and dynamic behavior of solvated neopentyllithium monomers, dimers, and tetramers: proton, carbon-13 and lithium-6 NMR . . 112 . 6190–6198 . 1990 . 17 . 10.1021/ja00173a005. 1990JAChS.112.6190F .