Rieke Metals Anhydrous Metal Salt Solutions

Rieke Metals is excited to offer a variety of Anhydrous Metal Salt Solutions in multiple molarities and solvents for your research and commercial purposes.

We are now offering Solutions from 0.1M to 2.0M in THF and MeTHF. We can accommodate quantities from 100mL to 100’s of Liters to support your needs from R&D at the bench through bulk for scale up manufacturing.

Our Anhydrous Metal Salt Solutions

Item #	Product Description	Concentration	Solvent
1015	Zinc Chloride Anhydrous Solution	0.5M	THF
1016	Zinc Chloride Anhydrous Solution	0.5M	MeTHF
1017	Zinc Chloride Anhydrous Solution	1.9M	MeTHF
1018	Lithium Bromide Anhydrous Solution	2.0M	THF
1019	Lithium Bromide Anhydrous Solution	2.0M	MeTHF
1020	Lithium Chloride Anhydrous Solution	0.5M	THF
1021	Manganese(II) chloride bis(lithium chloride) complex solution	1.0M	THF
1022	Dilithium tetrachlorocuprate(II) solution	0.1M	THF

Anhydrous Zinc Chloride: It’s often used to generate organozinc reagents by reacting with Grignard reagents or organolithium compounds. These organozinc reagents are useful in Negishi couplings, a type of cross-coupling reaction that forms carbon-carbon bonds.
Anhydrous Lithium Chloride and Bromide Solutions: These can serve as additives to improve the efficiency and conversion rates in various organic reactions. The salts help to stabilize reactive intermediates or enhance the reactivity of other reagents, making reactions faster or more selective.
Manganese(II) Chloride Bis(Lithium Chloride) Complex: This reagent is involved in generating organomanganese compounds by reacting with Grignard or organolithium reagents. Similar to organozinc reagents, organomanganese compounds can participate in cross-coupling reactions, offering a pathway for forming carbon-carbon bonds, although the reactivity might differ from that of zinc-based reagents.

These reagents and complexes are powerful tools in synthetic chemistry, particularly for creating complex organic molecules through metal-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions. The key role of the metal halides is often to facilitate the formation and stabilization of reactive organometallic intermediates.

If you are interested in these products in an alternate concentration or solvent please let us know as we also work on custom projects to meet client specific needs.