Aluminum occurrence

Studies of aluminum occurrence in soil matter and related materials... 

Aluminum chlorite, (Al,Fe)4(Si,Al)402Q(0H)g, in which a gibbsitelike interlayer proxies in part for the bmcitelike interlayer, is being discovered in increasing occurrences and abundance (11,141). Chloritelike stmctures have been synthesi2ed by precipitation of Mg and Al between montmorillonite sheets (143). Cookite [1302-92-7], an aluminous chlorite containing lithium, has been found in high alumina refractory clays and bauxite [1318-16-7] (139). 

Except for argon, the third-row elements make up an important fraction (about 30%) of the earth s crust. Silicon and aluminum are the second and third most abundant elements (oxygen is the most abundant). Both the occurrence and the mode of preparation of each element can be understood in terms of trends in chemistry discussed earlier in this chapter. 

Alpha carbon atoms, 348 Alpha decay, 417, 443 Alpha particle, 417 scattering, 245 Aluminum boiling point, 365 compounds, 102 heat of vaporization, 365 hydration energy, 368 hydroxide, 371 ionization energies, 269, 374 metallic solid, 365 occurrence, 373 properties, 101 preparation, 238. 373 reducing agent, 367 Alums, 403 Americium... 

Minerals belonging to the category of insoluble oxide and silicate minerals are many in number. Insoluble oxide minerals include those superficially oxidized and those of oxide type. The former category comprises mainly superficially oxidized sulfide minerals, including metals such as aluminum, tin, manganese, and iron which are won from their oxidic sources. As far as silicate minerals are concerned, there can be a ready reference to several metals such as beryllium, lithium, titanium, zirconium, and niobium which are known for their occurrence as (or are associated with) complex silicates in relatively low-grade deposits. 

The last reaction is the most favored of these three. The actual occurrence of the reactions with elemental phosphorus or phosphorous trichloride as products has been explained to be due to kinetic reasons. The thorium present in the ore volatilizes in the form of thorium tetrachloride (ThCl4) vapor other metallic impurities such as iron, chromium, aluminum, and titanium also form chlorides and vaporize. The product obtained after chlorination at 900 °C is virtually free from thorium chloride and phosphorous compounds, and also from the metals iron, aluminum, chromium, and titanium. 

The controlled occurrence of two electrophilic aromatic substitution reactions at a single phosphorus center using phosphorus trichloride has been accomplished using aluminum chloride as the catalyst, but with tris(2-chloroethyl) phosphite as the agent for the decomposition of the adduct-Lewis acid complex (Figure 6.13).60... 

For the seven samples with Si/Al > 1.9, only four of the possible nine structures containing three and four aluminum atoms appear to consistently occurr. These are the structures Na° Ma1, Na1 Ms0, N42 M4°, and N42 M41 which minimize the number of nearest neighbor Al-O-Si-O-Al interactions across four or six membered rings. 

In Table VI the occurrence of each prism type is summed over all the samples listed in Tables III, IV and V for those prisms containing two, three, or four aluminum atoms. The two preferred structures containing three aluminum atoms and the twocontaining four aluminum atoms are marked by asterisks. 

Another example of a diene undergoing a [2 + 2] cycloaddition reaction with an alkene has been reported recently4. 2-Dimethylaluminumoxy-l,3-cyclohexadiene (7) reacted with phenyl vinyl sulfoxide (8) to afford a diastereomeric mixture of cis substituted cyclobutanols 9 (equation 3). The occurrence of a [2 + 2] cycloaddition as well as the high cis stereoselectivity observed were explained by a pre-organization of the reactants by complexation of the diene bound aluminum with the sulfoxide oxygen on the olefin. 

In organic chemistry this stabilizing effect is well known the stability of carbanions is known to be enhanced by nitro groups. The stability of the cyclopentadienide anion is increased by complexing with a typical Lewis acid so that it becomes less reactive. For example, ferrocene is not ionized in nitromethane solution. Addition of a Lewis acid such as aluminum chloride facilitates the occurrence of intramolecular race-mization (75) a process which is believed to involve ionic intermediates [16). This belief is supported by kinetic evidence and the failure of the reaction to occur in nearly inert solvents like methylene chloride and in those of high donidty. Whereas the former do not support the solvation of the cation formed in the process of ionization, the latter will react preferentially with the Lewis acid, which is then no longer available for the stabilization of the carbanion. 

One study suggested a possible link of aluminum in public water supplies with the occurrence of Alzheimer disease in 88 county districts of England and Wales. In districts in which the mean aluminum concentration in water exceeded O.llmg/1, rates were 1.5 times higher than in districts in which the mean levels were less than 0.01 mg/1. The results have been challenged on the basis of study design and on the interpretation of the relative significance of the dose of aluminum from water as a fraction of total dietary intake."... 

Beside the BS band, two new absorptions appear at ca. 1610 and 1300 cm 1 in the infrared spectra NH3 loaded calcined Al-MCM-41. They belong to bending modes of ammonia coordinatively bound to aluminum Lewis sites [6]. The occurrence of Lewis sites is confirmed by the 27A1 NMR spectra, which show an increase of the intensity of the signal of octahedral Al after calcination. 

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