Aluminium acetylacetonate, also referred to as Al(acac)3, is a coordination complex with formula Al(C5H7O2)3. This aluminium complex with three acetylacetone ligands is used in research on Al-containing materials. The molecule has D3 symmetry, being isomorphous with other octahedral tris(acetylacetonate)s.Dymock, K.; Palenik, Gus J. "Tris(acetylacetonato)gallium(III)" Acta Crystallographica Section B: Structural Crystallography and Crystal Chemistry (1974), volume 30, 1364-6. . (this paper also discusses the Al compound)
Uses Aluminium acetylacetonate can be used as the precursor to crystalline aluminium oxide films using low-pressure metal organic chemical vapour deposition."Carbonaceous alumina films deposited by MOCVD from aluminium acetylacetonate: a spectroscopic ellipsometry study" In horticulture it can also be used as a molluscicide.
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