Organo metal complexes and uses thereof

Abstract From the Canadian patent

Cuprous organohaloaluminates and cuprous organohaloborates possessing the general formula CuMRX3 wherein M is a boron or aluminum atom X is a, chlorine, bromine or fluorine atom and R is a monovalent lower alkyl radical phenyl radical, alkylaryl radical or substituted alkyl phenyl or alkylaryl, radical, readily complex with olefins diolefins, acetylenes, aromatics, carbon monoxide, etc. The cuprous organohaloaluminates and cuprous organohaloborates are employed in the separation and recovery of complexible ligands from feedstreams containing the same.