The First Structural Characterization of a Five Coordinate Aluminum Trichloride-Bidentate Tertiary Amine Adduct, Trichloro(1,4-dimethylpiperazine) aluminum (III)

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Atwood, J.L. | Jones, C. | Raston, C.L. | Robinson, K.D.

Affiliations: Department of Chemistry, University of Wales, Swansea, Singleton Park, Swansea, Wales, SA2 8PP | Department of Chemistry, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, 3168, Australia | Department of Chemistry, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, Missouri, 65211, USA | Department of Chemistry, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 35487, USA

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Abstract: Treatment of 1,4-dimethylpiperazine with AlCl3 affords the title compound, the X-ray crystal structure of which shows it to be a chelate complex with a trigonal bipyramidal aluminum center having one axial and two equatorial chloride ligands.

DOI: 10.1080/13583149612331338647

Journal: Main Group Chemistry, vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 345-347, 1996