methylaluminations

Noun

methylalumination (usually uncountable, plural methylaluminations)

1. (usually) A chemical reaction involving the addition of a methyl group and an aluminum moiety to a substrate, typically an alkyne or alkene, resulting in the formation of organoaluminum compounds.
   • Zirconium-catalysed methylalumination of the propargylic and homopropargylic species (111) is uniformly highly regio- and stero-selective; the resulting alanes (112) are versatile olefin synthons.1983, G. Pattenden, General and Synthetic Methods (Specialist periodical reports), volume 6, Royal Society of Chemistry, page 31