Thin films, complex metal hydrides

As we describe later complex metal hydride thin films can also be made in situ by M B D using an atomic hydrogen source. As a result of their different microstmeture, these films nucleate randomly on rehydrogenation. 

Westerwaal, R. (2007) Growth, microstructure and hydrogenation of Pd-catalyzed complex metal hydride thin films, PhD Thesis, Vrije Universiteit. 

Altogether easier of access, more stable, and more tractable are complexes in which AIH3 is coordinated by one or more base molecules, e.g., (MegNl AlHs (n = 1 or 2). These are of interest as hydride sources for hydroalumination of unsaturated substrates 10, 140), as precursors to the hydrides of other metals, and, as already noted, in the chemical vapor deposition of aluminum metal in thin-film technology (21-26). The 1 1 trimethylamine adduct, MesN-AlHs, is monomeric in the vapor but, in common with PhCH2Me2N-AlH3 and... 

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