Aluminum halogens

ANHYDRIDE ARSENIQUE (French) (1303-28-2) Incompatible with acids, aluminum, halogens, rubidium carbide, strong alkalis, zinc. Gradually deliquesces (absorbs moisture from atmospheric air, becoming liquid) on exposure to air, forming arsenic acid. Contact with moisture, water, steam forms arsenic acid. Incompatible with sulfuric acid, caustics, ammonia, aliphatic amines, alkanolamines, amides, organic anhydrides, isocyanates, vinyl acetate, alkylene oxides, epichlorohydrin. Contact with acids or acid mists releases deadly arsine gas. Corrosive to metals in the presence of moisture. 

Secondary alkyl halides react by a similar mechanism involving attack on benzene by a secondary carbocation Methyl and ethyl halides do not form carbocations when treated with aluminum chloride but do alkylate benzene under Friedel-Crafts conditions The aluminum chloride complexes of methyl and ethyl halides contain highly polarized carbon-halogen bonds and these complexes are the electrophilic species that react with benzene... 

Titanium Aluminum, boron trifluoride, carbon dioxide, CuO, halocarbons, halogens, PbO, nitric acid, potassium chlorate, potassium nitrate, potassium permanganate, steam at high temperatures, water... 

Strong oxidizers and strong acids are incompatible with nikanolamines. Reactions, generating temperature and/or pressure increases, may occur with halogenated organic compounds. Alkan olamines are corrosive to copper and brass and may react. Contact with aluminum by alkan olamines, particularly when wet or at elevated temperatures (60°C), should be avoided. 

Reaction with Organic Compounds. Aluminum is not attacked by saturated or unsaturated, aUphatic or aromatic hydrocarbons. Halogenated derivatives of hydrocarbons do not generally react with aluminum except in the presence of water, which leads to the forma tion of halogen acids. The chemical stabiUty of aluminum in the presence of alcohols is very good and stabiUty is excellent in the presence of aldehydes, ketones, and quinones. 

Aluminum also reacts vigorously with the halogens to form trihahdes... 

Aluminum Halides. AH the halogens form covalent aluminum compounds having the formula AIX. The commercially most important are the anhydrous chloride and fluoride, and aluminum chloride hexahydrate. 

Halogen derivatives also form when the silanes are allowed to react with anhydrous hydrogen haUdes, ie, HCl, HBr, or HI, in the presence of an appropriate aluminum haUde catalyst (25,26). The reactions are generally quite moderate and can be carried out at room temperature or slightly above, ie, 80-100°C ... 

Whereas sulfolane is relatively stable to about 220°C, above that temperature it starts to break down, presumably to sulfur dioxide and a polymeric material. Sulfolane, also stable in the presence of various chemical substances as shown in Table 2 (2), is relatively inert except toward sulfur and aluminum chloride. Despite this relative chemical inertness, sulfolane does undergo certain reactions, for example, halogenations, ting cleavage by alkah metals, ring additions catalyzed by alkah metals, reaction with Grignard reagents, and formation of weak chemical complexes. 

Reactions other than those of the nucleophilic reactivity of alkyl sulfates iavolve reactions with hydrocarbons, thermal degradation, sulfonation, halogenation of the alkyl groups, and reduction of the sulfate groups. Aromatic hydrocarbons, eg, benzene and naphthalene, react with alkyl sulfates when cataly2ed by aluminum chloride to give Fhedel-Crafts-type alkylation product mixtures (59). Isobutane is readily alkylated by a dipropyl sulfate mixture from the reaction of propylene ia propane with sulfuric acid (60). 

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