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Research article - Peer-reviewed, 2008

Gallium alkoxides: Synthesis and properties

Suslova, Evgeniya V.; Turova, N. Ya.; Mityaev, A. S.; Kepman, A. V.; Gohil, Suresh

Abstract

Compounds Ga(OR)(3) (R = Me, Et, Pr-i, Bu-n, C2H4OMe) were synthesized by exchange reactions between gallium chloride and alkali metal alkoxides, the reetherefication of Ga(OPri)(3) and Ga(OC2H4OMe)(3) by other ROH (R = Me, Et), and anodic dissolution of metallic gallium in the presence of a electroconductive additive (LiCl, Bu4NBr). When solid GaCl3 is introduced into an alcoholic solution of NaOEt, stable soluble gallium oxoalkoxyhalides are formed. The same reaction with a GaCl3 solution in toluene or electrochemical synthesis produces nonvolatile Ga(OEt)(3) samples, which have the polymer zigzag configuration [Ga(OR)(4/2)(OR)](infinity). Mass spectrometry shows that only Ga(OPri)(3) and freshly prepared X-ray amorphous Ga(OEt)(3) samples (produced by reetherefication) are transferred to the gas phase. The spectra of the latter contain ions generated by penta-and hexanuclear oxoalkoxide molecules, along with fragments of orthospecies [Ga(OEt)(3)](2-4). IR spectra are described for all compounds synthesized.

Published in

Russian Journal of Inorganic Chemistry / Zhurnal Neorganicheskoi Khimii
2008, volume: 53, number: 5, pages: 665-675
Publisher: MAIK NAUKA/INTERPERIODICA/SPRINGER

Authors' information

Suslova, Evgeniya V.
Lomonosov Moscow State University
Turova, N. Ya.
Lomonosov Moscow State University
Mityaev, A. S.
Lomonosov Moscow State University
Kepman, A. V.
Lomonosov Moscow State University
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Chemistry

UKÄ Subject classification

Inorganic Chemistry

Publication Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1134/S003602360805001X

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https://res.slu.se/id/publ/78212