Non-Deprotonating Methodologies for Organolithium Reagents Starting from Non-Halogenated Materials. Part 1: Carbon-Heteroatom Bond Cleavage

The publications appeared in the last eleven years on the topic of the preparation of organolithium reagents by nondeprotonating methodologies and starting from non-halogenated substrates have been covered in the present revision. In this part, the carbon-heteroatom bond cleavage under reductive conditions has been considered, carbon-oxygen and carbon-sulfur bond cleavages (both in acyclic or cyclic systems) being of paramount importance. Additionally, other bond scissions, such as carbon-nitrogen, carbon- phosphorous, carbon-fluorine, carbon-silicon, carbon-selenium and carbon-tellurium bonds are recorded.