Aluminum Chloride
AlCl3, 133.341 g/mol. Its structure, the values that were measured, the values that were calculated, and where each one came from.
Identifiers
- Molecular formula
- AlCl₃
- Molecular weight
- 133.341 g/mol
- Exact mass
- 131.888097 g/mol
- IUPAC name
- trichloroalumane
- [Al+3].[Cl-].[Cl-].[Cl-]
- InChI=1S/Al.3ClH/h;3*1H/q+3;;;/p-3
- VSCWAEJMTAWNJL-UHFFFAOYSA-K
Measured properties
Values somebody obtained from a sample and published. Where two sources report the same property they are both shown, in the units each used — a disagreement between them is information, and averaging it away would be inventing a number neither one gave.
- Boiling Point
- 230 °F at 760 mmHg (USCG, 1999)
- 182.7 °C at 752 mm Hg /Sublimation temperature/
- Melting Point
- 381 °F (USCG, 1999)
- -30 °F (USCG, 1999)
- Density
- 2.44 at 77 °F (USCG, 1999) - Denser than water; will sink
- 1.28 (USCG, 1999) - Denser than water; will sink
- Solubility
- Water reactive
- Soluble in benzene, carbon tetrachloride, chloroform.
- Vapor Pressure
- 1 mm Hg at 100.0 °C
- 1 [mm Hg] @100 °C
Calculated properties
Derived from the structure rather than from a sample. These are reproducible and they are not measurements: a calculated partition coefficient and a measured one can differ by a long way, and where both exist they are listed apart on purpose.
- Molecular weight
- 133.34 g/mol
- Exact mass
- 131.888096 Da
- Polar surface area
- 0 Ų
- Complexity
- 8
- H-bond donors
- 0
- H-bond acceptors
- 0
- logP
- -9.3688
- Topological polar surface area
- 0 Ų
- H-bond donors
- 0
- H-bond acceptors
- 0
- Rotatable bonds
- 0
- Molar refractivity
- 5.754 cm³/mol
- Fraction sp³ carbons
- 0
- QED drug-likeness
- 0.288
What it is made of
Elements
Structure
- Heavy atoms, hydrogen excluded
- 4
- Total atoms, hydrogen included
- 4
- Rings
- 0
- Aromatic rings
- 0
- Stereocentres
- 0
- Formal charge
- 0
The molecule in three dimensions
The drawing above is a diagram of what is bonded to what. A molecule is not flat, and the model here is one low-energy shape generated from the connectivity — useful for seeing which groups can reach each other, and not a measured structure. A real sample is a population of conformations, interconverting.
Reactions it appears in
Other names for it
The systematic name on this record is trichloroalumane.
The sources also call it Aluminium chloride, Aluminum trichloride, Aluminium trichloride, trichloroalumane, Trichloroaluminum, Aluminum chloride anhydrous, Pearsall, Aluminiumchlorid, TK Flock, Chlorure d'aluminium, Alluminio(cloruro di).
Structurally related
Seen alongside it in reaction records
Molecules that appear in the same recorded reactions as Aluminum Chloride. This says nothing about structure: most of them are the bases, solvents, ligands and catalysts the chemistry needed, and they are here because somebody put them in the same flask.
1,2,3,4-Tetrahydro-7-methoxy-1-methylnaphthalene
used as a reactant
C₁₂H₁₆O, 176.259 g/mol.
1,2-Dichloroethane
used as a reactant
C₂H₄Cl₂, 98.96 g/mol.
1(3H)-Isobenzofuranone, 3-hydroxy-7-methoxy-
used as a reactant
C₉H₈O₄, 180.159 g/mol.
(3RS,4RS)-1-benzyl-4-(3-benzyloxyphenyl)-3-(naphthalen-2-ylmethoxy)-piperidine
used as a reactant
C₃₆H₃₅NO₂, 513.681 g/mol.
(3RS,4RS)-1-benzyl-4-(3-hydroxyphenyl)-3-(naphthalen-2-ylmethoxy)-piperidine
formed as a product
C₂₉H₂₉NO₂, 423.556 g/mol.
(3-Bromo-2-fluorophenyl)(trimethyl)silane
used as a reactant
C₉H₁₂BrFSi, 247.183 g/mol.
Where these values came from
chemistry engine
What this page does not claim
The identifiers are what the source record holds, copied rather than recomputed. Measured values are reported as their source gave them, units and all; calculated values are marked as calculated and are not measurements. Where a field is absent the page says so, because a blank cell reads as a zero and a guessed value reads as a fact.
Nothing here is a hazard assessment, a purity statement or advice about handling a sample. A flash point quoted from a safety database is a number somebody published, not a judgement by us about whether this molecule is safe for what you intend.