Boron group aluminum

Group 13 (IIIA) Perchlorates. Perchlorate compounds of boron and aluminum are known. Boron perchlorates occur as double salts with alkah metal perchlorates, eg, cesium boron tetraperchlorate [33152-95-3] Cs(B(C104)4) (51). Aluminum perchlorate [14452-95-3] A1(C104)2, forms a series of hydrates having 3, 6, 9, or 15 moles of water per mole of compound. The anhydrous salt is prepared from the trihydrate by drying under reduced pressure at 145—155°C over P2O5 (32). 

The temperature-independent parachor [P] may be calculated by the additive scheme proposed by Quale.The atomic group contributions for this method, with contributions for silicon, boron, and aluminum from Myers,are shown in Table 2-402. At low pressures, where Pi. pc, the vapor density term may be neglected. Errors using Eq. (2-168) are normally less than 5 to 10 percent. 

Neutral compounds such as boron trifluoride and aluminum chloride form Lewis acid-base complexes by accepting an electron pair from the donor molecule. The same functional groups that act as lone-pair donors to metal cations can form complexes with boron trifluoride, aluminum chloride, and related compounds. 

Stereoelectronic factors are also important in determining the stmcture and reactivity of complexes. Complexes of catbonyl groups with trivalent boron and aluminum compounds tend to adopt a geometry consistent with directional interaction with one of the oxygen lone pairs. Thus the C—O—M bond angle tends to be in the trigonal (120-140°) range, and the boron or aluminum is usually close to die carbonyl plane. ... 

The mechanism by which the Group III hydrides effect reduction involves activation of the carbonyl group by coordination with a metal cation and nucleophilic transfer of hydride to the carbonyl group. Hydroxylic solvents also participate in the reaction,59 and as reduction proceeds and hydride is transferred, the Lewis acid character of boron and aluminum becomes a factor. 

Homonuclear clusters of the heavier elements of the third main-group aluminum, gallium, indium and thallium having direct element-element interactions form a fascinating new class of compounds. As discussed in the previous Chapter 2.3, in some cases their structures resemble those known with the lightest element of that group, boron, while in other cases novel, metal-rich compounds were obtained which do not have any analogue in boron chemistry. 

The boron group (group 13 IIIA) consists of the elements boron (B), aluminum (Al), gallium (Ga), indium (In), and thallium (Ti). All have three electrons in their outer valence shell. A few exhibit metal-like characteristics by losing one or more of their outer electrons. For example, aluminum can lose one or three of its valence electrons and become a positive ion just as do other metals, but other elements in this group have characteristics more hke metalloids or semiconductors. 

Group 73 (IIIA) Perchlorates. Perchlorate compounds of boron and aluminum are known. Boron perchlorates occur as double salts with alkali metal perchlorates. Aluminum perchlorate, (CAS 14452-95-3J. Ai(C104)3. forms a series of hydrates. 

The anionic alkoxy hydrides of boron and aluminum, HM(OR)f, have been used as organic reducing agents.293 Compounds such as these are intermediates in reactions involving the tetrahy-drides and carbonyl groups. 

Ans. Mendeleev had used the prefix eka- (Sanskrit word for first) to name elements whose existence he predicted, applying the prefix to a known element in the same periodic group as the predicted element. His eka-boron, eka-aluminum, and e a-silicon were later discovered, confirmed, and named scandium, gallium, and germanium. Elements 104 and 105 were predicted to have electronic structures analogous to Hf and Ta. 

Boron and aluminum, the first two members of this group, are the only ones which are classed among the common elements. On this account, and also because the difference in properties between Family A and Family B is far less marked than in Groups I and II, the whole group is taken up under one heading. 

Of the elements in Group Illb, only boron and aluminum will be discussed here. Descriptions of the rarer metals of the group, gallium, indium and thallium, as wrell as those for the entire Ilia group and the rare-earth metals, appear in more specialized works. 

Group III, the boron or aluminum group Boron is a metalloid, whereas aluminum and its other congeners are metals. Their properties are discussed in Chapter 9. 

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