The same reaction described in the other thread yields tiralkyl aluminum directly if instead of aluminum metal, an alloy consisting of 2 mol Al to 3
mol Mg is susbstitued, in that case the products are the trialkyl aluminum and magnesium chloride. Additionally the trialkyl compound can be
synthesised in a classical manner from the regular reaction of aluminum with dimethyl mercury or there is usually some way to make these types of compounds through a Grignard in a simple chemical reaction but
electrolysis of a Grignard reagent with aluminum electrodes also yields the trialkyl compounds. |