User:Jdk22/Aluminylene/AnaFlorescu Peer Review

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Strong lead section giving the introduction into the aluminylene topic and providing context. Good "Free aluminylene" section providing the history of the compound's discovery/synthesis. The flow of the aluminylene discovery is well-written. I suggest attempting to provide NBO/IBO calculations for the sections where you mention them. Otherwise, you could also explain a bit more in-depth what the calculation tells about the molecular structure. The reference list is comprehensive, up-to-date, and diverse. The tone is on-point and unbiased. Overall, good job!

A couple of editing suggestions

In the first two sentences of the lead section's first paragraph, avoid repeating the verb "feature" twice, use "display"/"exhibit" instead. "Aluminylenes are a sub-class of aluminium(I) compounds that feature singly coordinate aluminium atoms with a lone pair of electrons.  As aluminylenes feature two unoccupied orbitals, they are not strictly aluminium analogues of carbenes until stabilized by a lewis base to form aluminium(I) nucleophiles." "singly coordinate" should probably be "singly-coordinated".

First paragraph of the reactivity section there is likely a comma missing: "The ambiphilic nature of aluminylenes as well as the reactivity of aluminium(I) complexes more generally, allows for aluminylenes to participate in a diverse range of reactions." "ambiphilic" should be "amphipillic".

In the first sentence of the Redox section, I would add the oxidation state of aluminium imides, just for the sake of clarity, although a good chemist understands it's +3: "Power’s aluminylene was shown to react with organic azides to create aluminium imides." Same thing here: "giving multiply coordinated aluminium compound." (probably missing an "a").

I believe "Lewis" should be capitalized (check with the publication): "The formation of lewis adducts was also observed when the aluminylene was mixed with strong lewis acids such as BCF (Tris(pentafluorophenyl)borane) and Piers’ borane (HB(C6F5)2)." Check this: Lewis acids and bases. Great work deciphering the abbreviated acids' names.