“…Limiting the amount of the Grignard reagent and lowering of the reaction temperature led to selective monoalkylations (Table 1, entries 6, 9, and 10). The latter conditions may be compared to those of a noncatalyzed alkylation (2 c!3 c: 112 8C, 3.5 h, 24 % yield) [24] to illustrate the impressive catalytic acceleration by copper(I). Trisubstitution was achieved in the case of cyanuric chloride (2 c) by performing consecutive alkylations in one pot (Table 1, entry 12).…”