As a comparative standard, the simple amine stabilized alane trimethylamine alane (4, AlH3:NMe3) and the amides dimethylamido alane (5, AlH2NMe2) and diethylamido alane (6, AlH2NEt2) were synthesized in a conventional salt metathesis reaction of LiAlH4 and the hydrochloride of the respective amines in a one-pot synthesis and could be isolated in yields of 90 -95 % via crystallization. Procedures were adapted from Ruff et al. Those compounds are fairly facile to synthesize, but lack shelf-life and are highly reactive upon contact to the ambient. Even though no pyrophoricity as strong as for TMA is observed, contaminated paper tissue starts fuming and even burning with higher amounts of compound upon air contact.