From laboratory to industrial scale, the use of strong organoalkali metal bases is almost exclusively restricted to alkyllithium derivatives. [1] They are commercially available as 1 ± 2 m solutions, quite stable and easily generated from alkylhalides and lithium. In contrast, the synthesis of alkylsodium compounds is much more troublesome and requires high-speed mechanical stirring, low temperatures, and excess sodium. [2±6] Under classical conditions, organohalides react with sodium to give mainly Wurtz coupling products. [7,8] Moreover, alkylsodium compounds show poor stability, especially in ethereal solvents. [9,10] As a consequence, in spite of the low cost of metallic sodium and the sometimes demonstrated interesting reactivity, [11] alkylsodium compounds have not been considered so far as valuable organometallic reagents in organic synthesis.Herein we report on a straightforward and efficient one-pot ortho-metalation procedure relying on the generation of sodiated organic bases from RCl and a stoichiometric amount of metallic sodium in the presence of aromatic substrates. [12] Under these conditions, handling and storage of alkylsodium compounds is avoided and ortho-metalation is favored over usual coupling and solvolysis side reactions. [13] 1,3-Dimethoxybenzene (1,3-DMB), known to undergo ortho-metalation with alkyllithium bases in good yields, [14] was selected as a model substrate to investigate the scope of the reaction with alkylsodium compounds [Eq. (1)]. Several parameters, including solvent, temperature, and the nature of the organohalide, were varied (Table 1). All reactions were quenched by addition of dry-ice, and the yield of acid [see Eq. (1)] was considered as indicative of the metalation efficiency. [15] ZUSCHRIFTEN