A New Synthetic Method and Solution Equilibria for the Chlorotitanate( IV ) Anions − Evidence for the Existence of a New Species: [Ti 2 Cl 11 ] 3−

2004

TiCl3 is oxidized by SOCl2 in the presence of the appropriate amount of [NEt3Bz]Cl or [PPN]Cl [Bz = benzyl; PPN = bis(triphenylphosphanyl)iminium] to afford the corresponding salts of [Ti2Cl9]−, [Ti2Cl10]2− or [TiCl6]2−. The results of cyclic voltammetric and solution IR studies in the Ti−Cl stretching region are interpreted in terms of a rapid chloride-redistribution equilibrium between [Ti2Cl10]2− on one side and a mixture of [Ti2Cl9]− and a previously unreported [Ti2Cl11]3− species on the other side. In the solid state, however, a compound with the [PPN]3[Ti2Cl11] stoichiometry exists as a mixture of [PPN]2[Ti2Cl10] and [PPN]2[TiCl6]. The PPN salt of [Ti2Cl9]− has been structurally chara…