in diethyl ether; pentane byproducts: LiCl; under Ar, excess of LiH in Et2O suspn. was added to Et2O soln. of Me2GaCl, reflux for 20 h, filtn., evapn. in vac. at room temp., drying at 45 °C (1E-3 Torr), solid was suspended in n-pentane, Me2GaCl was added in n-pentane, reflux for 16 h; soln. was filtered, residue was twice washed with n-pentane, combined filtrate was evapd., oily residue was distd. in vac. at room temp. (1E-3 Torr) with a cooled (-40 °C) collector, Me3Ga was collected at liq. N2 temp.;