- Aluminium monochloride
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IUPACName = Aluminium monochloride
OtherNames = Aluminium(I) chloride
Formula = AlCl
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OtherCpds =Aluminium monochloride is the
metal halide with the formula AlCl. This compound is produced as a step in theAlcan process to smeltaluminium from an aluminium-richalloy . When the alloy is placed in a reactor that is heated to 1,300° C and mixed with aluminium trichloride, a gas of aluminium monochloride is produced. [cite book
first=George E. | last=Totten | coauthors=MacKenzie, D. Scott
year=2003 | title=Handbook of Aluminum
publisher=CRC Press | isbn=0824708962 ]:2 [Al] {alloy} + AlCl3{gas} -> 3AlCl{gas}
It then disproportionates into aluminium melt and aluminium trichloride upon cooling to 900° C.
This molecule has been detected in the
interstellar medium , where molecules are so dilute that intermolecular collisions are unimportant. [cite journal
author=J. Cernicharo, M. Guelin
title=Metals in IRC+10216 - Detection of NaCl, AlCl, and KCl, and tentative detection of AlF
journal=Astronomy and Astrophysics
year=1987 | volume=183 | issue=1 | pages=L10-L12
url=http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1987A&A...183L..10C ]References
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