In 1900, the young French PhD student Victor Grignard (1871–1935) had the idea to prepare these elusive reagents in solution; this was a new concept. The reaction of various organic halides with ...

Grignard’s ancestors include Victor Grignard, awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1912 for the Grignard Reagent (a discovery that has become fundamental in organic chemistry), Emile Grignard ...