Aluminum hydroxide complexes

Further deprotonation, dehydration, and polymerization of monomers and dimers may yield ringlike stmctures of hydroxy—aluminum complexes (10). Coalescence of ring compounds into layers by further growth results in the formation of crystalline aluminum hydroxide at pH 6, the point of minimum aqueous solubiUty. 

The loaded organic phase is stripped of beryUium using an aqueous ammonium carbonate [506-87-6] solution, apparently as a highly soluble ammonium beryUium carbonate [65997-36-6] complex, (NH 4Be(C02)3. AU of the iron [7439-89-6] contained in the leach solution is coextracted with the beryUium. Heating the strip solution to about 70°C separates the iron and a smaU amount of coextracted aluminum as hydroxide or basic carbonate... 

As the first step of the catalyzed reaction series, the aluminum hydroxide suspended in the reaction liquid forms an aluminum complex with the acid anion, aluminum having the coordination number four in this complex. 

Drew RT, Gupta BN, Bend JR, et al. 1974. Inhalation studies with a glycol complex of aluminum-chloride-hydroxide. Arch Environ Health 28 321-326. 

Parker WO Jr, Millitri R, Kiricsi I (1995) Aluminum complexes in partially hydrolyzed aqueous AICI3 solutions used to prepare pillared clay catalysts. Appl Catalysis A General 121 L7-L 11 Persson P, Karlsson M., Ohman L-O. (1998) Coordination of acetate to Al(III) in aqueous solution and at the water-aluminum hydroxide interface a potentiometric and attenuated total reflectance FTIR study. Geochim Cosmochim Acta 62 3657-3668... 

Problem In order to present students with a cognitive conflict it is possible to precipitate a solid and to dissolve this solid by the same substance. One way is to add a small amount of sodium hydroxide solution to aluminum chloride solution aluminum hydroxide precipitates as a white solid. After that an excess of sodium hydroxide is added the white solid disappears because the soluble tetrahydroxide aluminum complex is formed. If this excess of hydroxide solution is added from the beginning, no precipitation occurs, the complex is just formed. 

Masking can be achieved by precipitation, complex formation, oxidation-reduction, and kinetically. A combination of these techniques may be employed. For example, Cu " can be masked by reduction to Cu(I) with ascorbic acid and by complexation with I . Lead can be precipitated with sulfate when bismuth is to be titrated. Most masking is accomplished by selectively forming a stable, soluble complex. Hydroxide ion complexes aluminum ion [Al(OH)4 or AlOa"] so calcium can be titrated. Fluoride masks Sn(IV) in the titration of Sn(II). Ammonia complexes copper so it cannot be titrated with EDTA using murexide indicator. Metals can be titrated in the presence of Cr(III) because its EDTA chelate, although very stable, forms only slowly. 

On hematite (Duckworth and Martin, 2001), the spectra of sorbed oxalate are similar to the above discussed surface complex on an aluminum oxy-hydroxide and consequently a 5-member bidentate complex was proposed. The effect of pH on the sorption of oxalate on goethite has also been studied (Persson and Axe, 2001). An outer-sphere surface complex and a 5-member ring inner-sphere surface complex were inferred from spectra of the goethite/ oxalate system and the aqueous Fe(lll)-oxalate complex. At low pH, the presence of outer-sphere surface complexes (COOH)2 was ruled out because of the absence of a band corresponding to these species in aqueous solutions (around 1735 and 1233 cmi). 

Definition Complexation prod, of stearic acid with aluminum/magnesium hydroxide Uses Emulsion stabilizer in cosmetics... 

At near-neutral pH, aluminum is preferentially complexed by hydroxide, total aluminum solubility is very low, and organic-aluminum complexes are not favored. At this pH, however, organic-silica complexes are more favored, silica is mobilized, and silicate and quartz dissolution rate is accelerated. Organic-acid concentration, however, must be much higher than for the equivalent mobilization of aluminum because of the weaker silica -organic-acid interaction. In a near-neutral pH, organic-rich system, silica is mobilized from the silicate surface with the released aluminum unstable with... 

Most metals will precipitate as the hydroxide in the presence of concentrated NaOH. Metals forming amphoteric hydroxides, however, remain soluble in concentrated NaOH due to the formation of higher-order hydroxo-complexes. For example, Zn and AP will not precipitate in concentrated NaOH due to the formation of Zn(OH)3 and Al(OH)4. The solubility of AP in concentrated NaOH is used to isolate aluminum from impure bauxite, an ore of AI2O3. The ore is powdered and placed in a solution of concentrated NaOH where the AI2O3 dissolves to form A1(0H)4T Other oxides that may be present in the ore, such as Fe203 and Si02, remain insoluble. After filtering, the filtrate is acidified to recover the aluminum as a precipitate of Al(OH)3. 

Aqueous solutions of caustic soda aie highly alkaline. Hence caustic soda is ptimatily used in neutralization reactions to form sodium salts (79). Sodium hydroxide reacts with amphotoric metals (Al, Zn, Sn) and their oxides to form complex anions such as AlO, ZnO. SnO ", and (or H2O with oxides). Reaction of AI2O2 with NaOH is the primary step during the extraction of alumina from bauxite (see Aluminum compounds) ... 

A commercial process which uses hydrothermal leaching on a large scale is the Bayer process for production of aluminum oxide (see Aluminum compounds). This process is used to extract and precipitate high grade alurninum hydroxide (gibbsite [14762-49-3]) from bauxite [1318-16-7] ore. The hydrothermal process step is the extraction step in which concentrated sodium hydroxide is used to form a soluble sodium aluminate complex ... 

Aluminum chloride hexahydrate, AIQ 6H20, manufactured from aluminum hydroxide and hydrochloric acid [7647-01-0], HQ, is used in pharmaceuticals and cosmetics as a flocculant and for impregnating textiles. Conversion of solutions of hydrated aluminum chloride with aluminum to the aluminum chlorohydroxy complexes serve as the basis of the most widely used antiperspirant ingredients (20). 

Assay of beryUium metal and beryUium compounds is usuaUy accompHshed by titration. The sample is dissolved in sulfuric acid. Solution pH is adjusted to 8.5 using sodium hydroxide. The beryUium hydroxide precipitate is redissolved by addition of excess sodium fluoride. Liberated hydroxide is titrated with sulfuric acid. The beryUium content of the sample is calculated from the titration volume. Standards containing known beryUium concentrations must be analyzed along with the samples, as complexation of beryUium by fluoride is not quantitative. Titration rate and hold times ate critical therefore use of an automatic titrator is recommended. Other fluotide-complexing elements such as aluminum, sUicon, zirconium, hafnium, uranium, thorium, and rate earth elements must be absent, or must be corrected for if present in smaU amounts. Copper-beryUium and nickel—beryUium aUoys can be analyzed by titration if the beryUium is first separated from copper, nickel, and cobalt by ammonium hydroxide precipitation (15,16). 

Porphyrin, octaethyl-, aluminum hydroxide complex cyclic voltammetry, 4, 399 <73JA5140)... 

A disaccharide is added to a pyridine SO3 complex solution, which is prepared by reacting 5 to 6 times the molar amount of liquid SO3 as much as that of disaccharide with 5 to 10 times the amount of pyridine as that of the disaccharide at 0°C to 5°C, for sulfation at 50°C to 70°C for 3 to 7 hours. After the completion of sulfation, the greater part of pyridine Is removed by decantation. The obtained solution exhibits an acidity that is so strong that it is improper to apply the reaction with aluminum ion and, therefore, sodium hydroxide is added for neutralization. After the remaining pyridine is removed by concentration, 100 unit volumes of water per unit volume of the residue is added thereto. To the solution is then added aluminum ion solution mainly containing aluminum dihydroxychloride, the pH of which is 1.0 to 1.2, in such an amount that the aluminum ion Is present in an amount of 4 to 6 molar parts of the amount of disaccharide to provide a pH of 4 to 4.5. The mixture is reacted under stirring at room temperature and the formed disaccharide poly sulfate-aluminum compound is allowed to precipitate. After filtration, the residue is washed with water and dried. 

Aluminum hydroxide reacts with an excess of hydroxide ions to form the complex ion Al(OH)4. ... 

Bauxite, the main aluminum ore, is a mixed oxide-hydroxide, A1(0)0H, contaminated with Si02, Fc2 O3, clay, and other hydroxide salts. To isolate the aluminumcontaining material, the ore is treated with a strongly basic solution, whose high hydroxide concentration causes the solid to dissolve as a soluble complex ion,... 

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