What is "diphenylzinc"

Diphenylzinc is an organozinc compound. It is commonly used as the synthetic equivalent of a Ph synthon. Solvent-free diphenylzinc exists as dimeric PhZn(μ-Ph)ZnPh molecules in solid state.

Diphenylzinc is commercially available. It may be prepared by reaction of phenyllithium with zinc bromide:

It may also be prepared by the reaction of diphenylmercury with zinc metal.