Sodium cyclopentadienide: Difference between revisions

The use of "sodium sand", a fine dispersion of sodium prepared by melting sodium in refluxing [[xylene]] and rapidly stirring, is traditional.<ref name = ferrocene>{{OrgSynth | title = Ferrocene | author = [[Geoffrey Wilkinson|Wilkinson, Geoffrey]] | collvol = 4 | collvolpages = 473 | year = 1963 | prep = cv4p0473}}</ref><ref>{{OrgSynth | author = Partridge, John J.; Chadha, Naresh K.; Uskokovic, Milan R. | title = An asymmetric hydroboration of 5-substituted cyclopentadienes: synthesis of methyl (1''R'',5''R'')-5-hydroxy-2-cyclopentene-1-acetate | collvol = 7 | collvolpages = 339 | prep = cv7p0339 | year = 1990}}</ref> [[Sodium hydride]] is a convenient base:<ref>Girolami, G. S.; Rauchfuss, T. B. and Angelici, R. J., Synthesis and Technique in Inorganic Chemistry, University Science Books: Mill Valley, CA, 1999.ISBN: 0935702482</ref>