Magnesium is commonly found in rocks and sea water as well as living organisms ... in ether led to stable solutions of organomagnesium reagents that bear Grignard's name. In fact, his first ...

awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1912 for the Grignard Reagent (a discovery that has become fundamental in organic chemistry), Emile Grignard, known for developing over 4,000 kilometers of ...