text: Carbon nucleophiles such as Grignard reagents, convert acyl chlorides to ketones, which in turn are susceptible to the attack by second equivalent to yield the tertiary alcohol. The reaction of acyl halides with certain organocadmium reagents stops at the ketone stage.  The reaction with Gilman reagents also afford ketones, reflecting  the low nucleophilicity of these lithium diorganocopper compounds.