Transmetalation of a chiral secondary Grignard reagent to Cu(I) or Mn(II) occurs with partial racemization in a manner that suggests the sequence of two transmetalation cycles, one with racemization (caused by ET ?) and the other one with (predominant) retention of configuration.
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Hoffmann et al. (2002) studied this question.
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