Extracting Diffusion Coefficients 1.2.7 Molecular Weight Determination 1.3 Scope of this Thesis 2 RESULTS AND DISCUSSION 2.1 Development of the DOSY-External Calibration Curve MW-Determination Methodology 2.1.1 Application of a Normalized Reference System with Fixed Diffusion Coefficients 2.1.2 External Calibration Curves (ECC) and Internal References 2.1.3 Quality of TOL-d7 and THF-d7 as Internal Reference 2.1.4 Influence of Shape 2.1.5 Influence of Concentration 2.1.6 Influence of Temperature 2.1.7 Influence of Halides and Molar Density 2.1.8 Influence of Deuterated Compounds 2.2 DOSY-ECC-MW-Determination of Organometallics and Metal Amides 2.2.1 Structure of LDA in THF Solution 2.2.2 Structure of LDA in Toluene Solution 2.2.3 Structure of Na-Indenide in THF Solution 2.2.4 Structure of [t-BuLi]4•4[Me2NC6H4Li]4 in Toluene Solution 2.2.5 Structure of MHMDS with Ammonia as Donorbase in Toluene Solution 2.2.6 Structure of Hauser Base i Pr2NMgCl in THF solution 2.2.7 Structure of Turbo-Hauser Base i Pr2NMgCl•LiCl in THF solution 2.2.8 Structure of Turbo-Hauser Base TMPMgCl•LiCl in THF solution 3 SUMMARY AND OUTLOOK 4 EXPERIMENTAL PART 4.1 Techniques and Experiments 4.1.1 Handling of Air-and Moisture Sensitive Compounds 4.1.2 NMR Experiments 4.1.3 Computational Details 4.2 Synthesis and Crystallization 4.2.1 Donor-Base-Free LDA 4.2.2 Na-Indenide 4.2.3 MHMDS-Ammoniacates (M = Li, Na, K, Rb and Cs) 4.2.4 i Pr2NMgCl 4.2.5 i Pr2NMgCl•LiCl 4.2.6 TMPMgCl•LiCl 4.3 Preparation of DOSY-NMR-Samples 4.3.1 Internal References 4.3.2 LDA 4.3.3 Na-Indenide 4.3.4 MHMDS-Ammoniacates (M = Li, Na and K) 4.3.5 i Pr2NMgCl and i Pr2NMgCl•LiCl 4.3.6 TMPMgCl•LiCl4.4 X-Ray Analysis 4.4.1 [NH3•LiN(SiMe3)2]2•TOL 4.4.2 [NH3•NaN(SiMe3)2]2 4.4.3 [NH3•KN(SiMe3)2]2 4.4.4 [NH3•RbN(SiMe3)2]2 4.4.5 (NH3)4•[NaN(SiMe3)2]2 4.4.6 [(THF)ClMg(μ-i Pr2N)]2