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Aluminium monochloride
Names
IUPAC name
Aluminium monochloride[citation needed]
Systematic IUPAC name
Chloridoaluminium[1]
Other names
Aluminium(I) chloride[citation needed]
Identifiers
3D model (JSmol)
ChEBI
ChemSpider
  • InChI=1S/Al.ClH/h;1H/q+1;/p-1 checkY
    Key: IZMHKHHRLNWLMK-UHFFFAOYSA-M checkY
  • [Al]Cl
Properties
AlCl
Molar mass 62.43 g·mol−1
Thermochemistry
227.95 J K−1 mol−1
-51.46 kJ mol−1
Related compounds
Related compounds
aluminium monofluoride
gallium monofluoride
Except where otherwise noted, data are given for materials in their standard state (at 25 °C [77 °F], 100 kPa).
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Aluminium monochloride is the metal halide with the formula AlCl. This compound is produced as a step in the Alcan process to smelt aluminium from an aluminium-rich alloy. When the alloy is placed in a reactor that is heated to 1,300°C and mixed with aluminium trichloride, a gas of aluminium monochloride is produced.[2]

2[Al]{alloy} + AlCl3{gas} -> 3AlCl{gas}

It then disproportionates into aluminium melt and aluminium trichloride upon cooling to 900°C.

This molecule has been detected in the interstellar medium, where molecules are so dilute that intermolecular collisions are unimportant.[3]

References

  1. ^ "chloridoaluminium (CHEBI:30131)". Chemical Entities of Biological Interest (ChEBI). UK: European Bioinformatics Institute.
  2. ^ Totten, George E.; MacKenzie, D. Scott (2003). Handbook of Aluminum. CRC Press. ISBN 0-8247-0896-2.
  3. ^ J. Cernicharo, M. Guelin (1987). "Metals in IRC+10216 - Detection of NaCl, AlCl, and KCl, and tentative detection of AlF". Astronomy and Astrophysics. 183 (1): L10–L12. Bibcode:1987A&A...183L..10C.