Metallic magnesium: an efficient catalyst toward N-aryl and N-alkyl substituted amides directly from aliphatic carboxylic acids

Green Synthesis of Electrophilic Alkenes Using a Magnesium Catalyst under Aqueous Conditions and Mechanistic Insights by Density Functional Theory

“…The Mg(0) metal has been applied in various reduction and coupling reactions, where most of the reactions were reported using a large amount of magnesium metal. Comparatively, fewer catalytic transformations have been found in the literature using commercially available Mg metal as a catalyst, although it is less expensive than other Mg-based catalytic systems. However, various catalytic reactions, including hydroboration of carbonate, nitrile, and esters, and enantioselective catalytic transformations have been developed using Mg complexes .…”