Al atoms

Aluminum [7429-90-5] Al, atomic number 13, atomic weight 26.981, is, at 8.8 wt %, the third most abundant element in the earth s cmst. It is usually found in siUcate minerals such as feldspar [68476-25-5] clays, and mica [12001 -26-2]. Aluminum also occurs in hydroxide, oxide—hydroxide, fluoride, sulfate, or phosphate compounds in a large variety of minerals and ores. 

Kabsch, W., et al. Atomic structure of the actin DNAse I complex. Nature 347 37-44, 1990. 

Electron diffraction studies in the gas phase reveal an unusual structure in which the 5-coordinate Al atom has square-pyramidal... 

These values show some dependence on concentration, pH and temperature. Note also the much smaller linewidth for the central, symmetrically 4-coordinated Al atom of the tridecameric AI13 species when compared with that of the twelve less symmetrically coordinated octahedral Al atoms, and the possibility of extracting a reasonably precise value of for this latter resonance which has a linewidth of some 8000 Hz. 

EFFECTS OF SHORT-RANGE ORDERING OF EXCESS Al ATOMS... 

USY Zeolite ( 7 Al Atoms/u.c.) unit Cell Dimension =24.25 A (Si02/Ai203=54)... 

Thus, the combined experimental and theoretical results indicate that the chemical shift observed for the S(2p) core level, of about 1.6 eV, should be due to a secondary effect from the attachment of Al atoms to the adjacent carbon atoms. Indeed, this is fully consistent with tib initio Hartree-Fock ASCF calculations of the chemical shifts in aluminum-oligolhiophene complexes 187], From calculations on a AI2/a-3T complex, where the two AI atoms are attached to the a-car-bons on the central thiophene unit, the chemical shift of the S(2p) level for the central sulfur atom is found to be 1.65 eV, which is in close agreement with the experimental value of about 1.6 eV [84]. It should be pointed out that although several different Al-lhiophene complexes were tested in the ASCF calculations, no stable structure, where an Al atom binds directly to a S atom, was found [87]. 

Boron trichloride, a colorless, reactive gas of BC13 molecules, behaves chemically like BF3. However, the trichloride of aluminum, which is in the same group as boron, forms dimers, linked pairs of molecules. Aluminum chloride is a volatile white solid that vaporizes at 180°C to a gas of Al2Cl6 molecules. These molecules survive in the gas up to about 200°C and only then fall apart into A1C13 molecules. The Al,CI6 molecule exists because a Cl atom in one AlCI, molecule uses one of its lone pairs to form a coordinate covalent bond to the Al atom in a neighboring AICI molecule (33). This arrangement can occur in aluminum chloride hut not boron trichloride because the atomic radius of Al is bigger than that of B. 

Replacement of each water molecule by an MnAli2 icosahedron with shared faces leads to an infinite framework with 136 Mn and 816 Al atoms in the unit cube. This framework is similar to the framework of covalently bonded carbon atoms in a diamond crystal, with one body diagonal of each pentagonal dodecahedron in place of each C—C covalent bond. 

Figure 2. Structural series of Cr-AI borides and mode of formation Crn. AlB2 = CrAI + nCrB2, n = 1,2. The structures are projected along [001] the B net and Al atoms in z = 1 /2 Cr atoms are in z = 0.

Puskas, J.E. et al. Atomic force microscopic and encrustation studies of no vel prospective polyisobutylene-based thermoplastic elastomeric biomaterials, Polym. Adv. TechnoL, 14, 763, 2003. 

Localization Cluster type Position of the Al atom Cluster composition... 

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