methylalumination

plural methylaluminations

1. uncountableusuallychemistryA chemical reaction involving the addition of a methyl group and an aluminum moiety to a substrate, typically an alkyne or alkene, resulting in the formation of organoaluminum compounds.

   The reaction is broad in scope with respect to R¹ in the single most important case of methylalumination.

   2013 December 4, Armin de Meijere, Stefan Bräse, Martin Oestreich, Metal Catalyzed Cross-Coupling Reactions and More, John Wiley & Sons, pages 3-26

   2 more examples

   Zirconium-catalysed methylalumination of the propargylic and homopropargylic species (111) is uniformly highly regio- and stero-selective; the resulting alanes (112) are versatile olefin synthons.

   1983, G. Pattenden, General and Synthetic Methods (Specialist periodical reports), volume 6, Royal Society of Chemistry, page 31

   The regio- and stereoselectivity of the overall reaction is determined solely by the selection of ligands in methylalumination reactions.

   2024, Guoliang Zhang, Annemie Bogaerts, Jingyun Ye, Chang-jun Liu, editors, Advances in CO₂ Utilization: From Fundamentals to Applications, Springer Nature, page 262