Tags: Chemical Compound, Chemical Substance.
Phenyllithium or Lithobenzene is an organometallic agent with the empirical formula C6H5Li. It is most commonly used as a metalating agent in organic syntheses and a substitute for Grignard reagents for introducing phenyl groups in organic syntheses. Crystalline phenyllithium is colorless; however solutions of phenyllithium are various shades of brown or red depending on the solvent used and the impurities present in the solute.
