Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2018
Let $L={{L}_{0}}+{{L}_{1}}$ be a ${{\mathbb{Z}}_{2}}$ -graded Lie algebra over a commutative ring with unity in which 2 is invertible. Suppose that ${{L}_{0}}$ is abelian and $L$ is generated by finitely many homogeneous elements ${{a}_{1}},.\,.\,.,{{a}_{k}}$ such that every commutator in ${{a}_{1}},.\,.\,.,{{a}_{k}}$ is ad-nilpotent. We prove that $L$ is nilpotent. This implies that any periodic residually finite ${2}'$ -group $G$ admitting an involutory automorphism $\phi $ with ${{C}_{G}}\left( \phi \right)$ abelian is locally finite.