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Molecular Dialane and Other Binary Hydrides
Author(s) -
Mitzel Norbert W.
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.200301659
Subject(s) - hydride , binary number , molecule , hydrogen , phase (matter) , hydrogen molecule , materials science , chemistry , computational chemistry , chemical physics , organic chemistry , mathematics , arithmetic
The dialane molecule (Al 2 H 6 , see structure) is highly unstable in the condensed phase, and hence it was more than half a century after the discovery of aluminum hydride that it was identified in a hydrogen matrix. Apart from such fundamental findings, the rapidly developing chemistry of the binary main‐group hydrides is also aimed at synthetic applications.