Grignard reagents were first reported in 1900 and Grignard
used this work for his doctoral thesis in 1901 In 1910, Grignard obtained
a professorship at the University of Nancy and in 1912, he was awarded
the Nobel prize for Chemistry which he shared with Paul Sabatier who
had made advances in nickel catalysed hydrogenation In the Grignard reagent, the carbon-magnesium bond is covalent
but highly polar, with carbon pulling electrons from electropositive
magnesium; the magnesium halogen bond is essentially ionic Grignard reagents are highly reactive and react with any source of
proton to give hydrocarbons