0000000000221334
AUTHOR
Emmanuel Robé
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−
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…
Mixed Titanium–Hafnium Chloridometallate Complexes
The addition of either NEt 3 BzCl or [Ph 3 PNPPh 3 ]Cl (1 equiv. chloride per metal) to a 1:1 mixture of HfCl 4 and TiCl 3 in SOCl 2 results in Ti oxidation and leads to the corresponding salts of the [TiHfCl 10 ] 2- ion. A solution IR investigation in the v(M-Cl) region indicates that this ion is in equilibrium with the homodimetallic [Ti 2 Cl 10 ] 2- and [Hf 2 Cl 10 ] 2- ions. An X-ray study of the NEt 3 Bz + salt reveals an edge-sharing bioctahedral dianion sitting on a crystallographic inversion centre. The crystal is a solid solution of different species with compositional disorder at the metal site, each metal position having the occupancy Ti 0.685 Hf 0.315 . The M-M and M-Cl distance…