S-EPMC11040652 - Addition of allyl Grignard to nitriles in air and at room temperature: experimental and computational mechanistic insights in pH-switchable synthesis†‡ † Dedicated to Professor Jose (Pepe) Gimeno on the occasion of his 75th birthday, a visionary organometallic chemist and an inspiring mentor of Joaquin Garcia-Alvarez.‡ Electronic supplementary information (ESI) available: Full experimental details, NMR spectra, Cartesian coordinates (in A) and free energies (in a.u.) of all the stationary points discussed in the text. See DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/d3sc06403d