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Lithium Corporation of America

Bobby Joe McElroy

Conrad W Kamienski

James Anthony Schwindeman

Robert C Morrison

Randy W Hall

Terry L Rathman

Ricardo O Bach

Organometallic amide compositions and processes for preparing the same, for example, by: reacting an alkali metal, alkali metal hydride, or alkali metal amide with a substituted amine in the absence of an electron carrier; reacting an alkali metal with a substituted amine in the presence of an electron carrier in a hydrocarbon solvent; distilling a composition which includes an alkali metal amide and a reduced electron carrier to recover the alkali metal amide; reacting an alkali metal with a substituted amine in the presence of an alkyl halide; and reacting a substituted amine capable of reacting with an alkali metal to form a hydrocarbon insoluble alkali metal amide with an alkali metal in the presence of a substituted amine capable of reacting with an alkali metal to form a hydrocarbon soluble alkali metal amide.

Contaminant free organometallic amide compositions and processes for

Stable diorganomagnesiums are prepared which are soluble in acyclic liquid hydrocarbons and represent novel and highly useful compositions. They are prepared, for instance, by forming a mixture of magnesium metal powder in an acyclic liquid hydrocarbon to which are added a C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 n-alkyl halide, such as n-butyl chloride, and a n-alkyl halide containing at least 6 carbon atoms, such as n-octyl chloride, and effecting reaction to convert them to their corresponding dialkylmagnesiums. Then, a secondary or tertiary organolithium compound, such as sec- or tert-butyllithium, is added, in the form of a solution in an acyclic liquid hydrocarbon, and the byproduct halide salts which were formed and are present in the reaction mixture are separated from the resulting stable solution of the diorganomagnesium complex by filtration or by equivalent separation procedures. The resulting stable solutions of the said complex of diorganomagnesiums can be produced in a variety of acyclic liquid hydrocarbons, or mixtures of said acyclic liquid hydrocarbons, including those which are of linear or branched character.

Stable diorganomagnesium compositions

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