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Grignard reagents are formed by the reaction of magnesium metal with alkyl or alkenyl halides. They're extremely good nucleophiles, reacting with electrophiles such as carbonyl compounds (aldehydes, ketones, esters, carbon dioxide, etc) and epoxides. ... Similar to or the same as: very similar to organolithium reagents.

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So there are two possible pathways of acetic acid synthesis from CO2, methanol and H2. The first is the CO pathway, that is, the CO2 was hydrogenated to CO, then acetic acid was formed by methanol carbonylation. The second is the CO2 pathway, namely, the methanol was hydrocarboxylated into acetic acid by CO2 and H2.