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A Gilman reagent is a lithium and copper reagent compound, R2CuLi, where R is an alkyl or aryl. These reagents are useful because, unlike related Grignard reagents and organolithium reagents, they react with organic halides to replace the halide group with an R group. Such displacement reactions allow for the synthesis of complex products from simple building blocks.
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