Mercury alanes

Trialkyl alanes are also produced when mercury and metallic aluminum are stirred with molten sodium tetraalkyl alanate (319). Sodium amalgam is formed by the reaction... 

Whereas the preparation of aliphatic aluminum compounds from appropriate element alkyls and aluminum halides is now of interest only in special cases (see Sections II,A,3 and IV,B), the route to aryl aluminum compounds from aryl magnesium halides and aluminum halides or from either aluminum or trialkylamine alanes and mercury diaryls is still useful (174, 48). 

Lithium tetravinylalanate may be prepared by a special method involving the reaction of lithium alanate with mercury divinyl (17). 

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