Reaction of lithium atoms at 800 °C with chlorocarbons; a new route to polylithium compounds
Abstract
Reaction of excess of atomic lithium at 800–1000 °C with carbon tetrachloride and hexachloroethane produces tetralithiomethane and hexalithioethane, the first examples of perlithiated alkanes; the new compound tetralithioethylene is also produced in the first reaction.