hexanitratoaluminate
Related compounds
Hexaperchloratoaluminate [Al(ClO4)6]3−{{cite journal|last=Nikitina|first=Z. K.|author2=V. Ya. Rosolovskii|year=1978|title=Ammonium perchloratoaluminates|journal=Bulletin of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR Division of Chemical Science|volume=27|issue=3|pages=449–452|issn=0568-5230|doi=10.1007/BF00923912}} has perchlorate groups instead of nitrate, and is similarly sensitive to water. Pentanitratoaluminates have five nitrate groups.{{cite journal|last=D'yachenko|first=O. A.|author2=L. O. Atovmyan|year=1975|title=The molecular and crystal structure of cesium pentanitratoaluminate|journal=Journal of Structural Chemistry|volume=16|issue=1|pages=73–78|issn=0022-4766|doi=10.1007/BF00747552|bibcode=1975JStCh..16...73D |s2cid=98400620 }} Tetranitratoaluminates have only four nitrate groups.{{cite journal|last=Addison|first=C. C.|author2=P. M. Boorman |author3=N. Logan |year=1966|title=Anhydrous aluminium nitrate, and the nitronium and alkylammonium tetranitratoaluminates|journal=Journal of the Chemical Society A: Inorganic, Physical, Theoretical|page=1434|issn=0022-4944|doi=10.1039/J19660001434}}
Examples
A known salt is potassium hexanitratoaluminate K3[Al(NO3)6].
Tetramethylammonium hexanitratoaluminate can be formed from tetramethylammonium chloride, aluminium chloride and dinitrogen tetroxide diluted with nitromethane.{{cite book|last=Jones|first=CJ Bigler|title=Transition and Main Group Metals Applied to Oxidative Functionalization of Methane and Use as High Oxygen Carriers for Rocket Propellants|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ELjafGhBa3EC&pg=PA164|access-date=4 February 2014|year=2007|isbn=978-0-549-23106-6|pages=164–165,174–175}}
Rubidium hexanitratoaluminate also exists.{{cite journal|author=G. N. Shirokova |author2=S. Ya. Zhuk |author3=V. Ya. Rosolovskii |journal=Russian Journal of Inorganic Chemistry|year=1976|volume=21|page=1459|title=Rubidium hexanitratoaluminate}}