Aluminum dichloride and dibromide. Preparation, spectroscopic (including matrix isolation) study, reactions, and role (together with alkyl (aryl) aluminum monohalides …

…, O Farooq, SMF Farnia, MR Bruce…

Index: Olah, George A.; Farooq, Omar; Farnia, S. Morteza F.; Bruce, Mark R.; Clouet, Francoise L.; et. al. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1988 , vol. 110, # 10 p. 3231 - 3238

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Abstract: Anhydrous aluminum trichloride or bromide when heated in a 2: 1 molar ratio with aluminum powder as a suspension in dry n-heptane or methylcyclohexane was found to be partially reduced to aluminum dichloride or dibromide. Ultrasound treatment (sonication) significantly promotes the reaction. Aluminum dichloride in higher purity was obtained by the reaction of gaseous aluminum trichloride with aluminum metal in a high-vacuum reactor, ...