Aluminum Chloride
An inorganic compound, AlCl3, 133.341 g/mol. Boiling point 182.7 °C at 752 mm Hg, melting point 381 °F, as published.
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
- 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
- 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.
(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.
1(3H)-Isobenzofuranone, 3-hydroxy-7-methoxy-
used as a reactant
C₉H₈O₄, 180.159 g/mol.
1,2-Dichloroethane
used as a reactant
C₂H₄Cl₂, 98.96 g/mol.
1,2,3,4-Tetrahydro-7-methoxy-1-methylnaphthalene
used as a reactant
C₁₂H₁₆O, 176.259 g/mol.
(3RS,4RS)-1-benzyl-4-(3-benzyloxyphenyl)-3-(naphthalen-2-ylmethoxy)-piperidine
used as a reactant
C₃₆H₃₅NO₂, 513.681 g/mol.
Where these values came from
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What this page does not claim
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