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Trimethylaluminium
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<p>Trimethylaluminium is one of the simplest examples of an <a href="/facts/Organoaluminium_chemistry/GM0K5eKE">organoaluminium</a> compound. Despite its name it has the <a href="/facts/Chemical_formula/hghUtthl">formula</a> <a href="/facts/Aluminium/7wmR8jYE">Al</a>2(<a href="/facts/Methyl/fkM97EMD">CH3</a>)6 (abbreviated as Al2Me6 or TMA), as it exists as a <a href="/facts/Dimer_(chemistry)/mU64PnEq">dimer</a>. This colorless liquid is <a href="/facts/Pyrophoric/1b8Sl2AJ">pyrophoric</a>. It is an industrially important compound, closely related to <a href="/facts/Triethylaluminium/CTLVqBbP">triethylaluminium</a>. </p>