Hydrido and chloro gallium and aluminium complexes with the tridentate bis(2-dimethylaminoethyl)amide ligand.

Five-coordinate gallium and aluminium dihydrides, H2Ga[N(CH2CH2NMe2)2] () and H2Al[N(CH2CH2NMe2)2] (), were synthesized and found to be volatile and thermally stable. and reacted with H3Ga(NMe3) and H3Al(NMe3), respectively, to form H2Ga[N(CH2CH2NMe2)2]GaH3 () and H2Al[N(CH2CH2NMe2)2]AlH3 (), in which the amido nitrogen bridged between the MH2 and MH3 groups (M=Ga or Al). A mixed metal complex, H2Al[N(CH2CH2NMe2)2]GaH3 () was obtained from the reaction of with H3Al(NMe3) or with H3Ga(NMe3), and a crystal consisting of a mixture of and was structurally characterized. The five-coordinate chloro derivative, Cl2Ga[N(CH2CH2NMe2)2] (), was synthesized and characterized.