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What is the use of copper salt in a grignard reagent

what is the use of copper salt in a Grignard reagent
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  • Krishna parmar thankyou
    Since the discovery that copper(I) halides catalyze the conjugate addition of Grignard reagents in 1941, organocopper reagents have emerged as weakly basic, nucleophilic reagents f...
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  • Dinesh khalmaniya Best Answer
    An organocopper can be made by transmetallating a grignard reagent. This also acts as a nucleophilillic carbanion: Copper is less electropositive, so it produces a less-charged (or...
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    Shweta thakur
    sir I only get that it's made grignard reagent a soft nucleophile
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