"Grignard "

M A G N E S I U M, oh M A G N E S I U M

You need a hydrocarbon with a halide
Treat it in ether with magnesium
And when you want an alcohol, you start right here
Just take a carbonyl, oh a carbonyl, and soon what you'll have is
An alcohol

Primary, Secondary, Tertiary, oh yeah
Hey, go attack formaldehyde, for primary
Or maybe you can use an aldehyde, secondary
But then there's always ketone, oh yeah then tertiary

It don't matter what you choose, for alcohol
take a carbonyl and that reagent
You always get an alcohol, Grignard reagent
Whenever you get started, all you need is that

M A G N E S I U M, oh M A G N E S I U M

First take a hydrocarbon with a halide
Treat it in ether with magnesium
And when you want an alcohol, you start right here
Just take a carbonyl, oh a carbonyl, and soon what you'll have is
An alcohol

Forming carbon carbon bonds ain't hard, all you need
Just watch what halide, don't take fluoro
Give me bromo, iodo, or chloro, they all work
But there ain't no F's in my Grignard
You don't need no special bonds or overlapping orbitals
A little halogenated alkyl group
Magnesium, carbon bonding, and protonation
And soon you'll see you've formed a carbon bond and lost a salt

All you needed was a Grignard reagent
Application of a Grignard reagent