ABSTRACT
The stepwise modifications of stoichiometric mixtures of titanium chloride (TiCl 4) and titanium iso-propoxide (Ti(OPr (i)) 4) by 2-pyridine methanol (H-OPy) led to the isolation of a systematically varied, novel family of compounds. The 3:1 reaction mixture of Ti(OPr (i)) 4:TiCl 4 yielded [Cl(OPr (i)) 2Ti(mu-OPr (i))] 2 ( 1). Modification of 1 with 1 and 2 equiv of H-OPy produced [Cl(OPr (i)) 2Ti(mu c-OPy)] 2 ( 2, where mu c = chelating bridge) and "(OPy) 2TiCl(OPr (i))" ( 3, not crystallographically characterized), respectively. Altering the Ti(OPr (i)) 4 to TiCl 4 stoichiometry to 1:1 led to isolation and identification of another dimeric species [Cl 2(OPr (i))Ti(mu-OPr (i))] 2 ( 4). Upon modification with 1 equiv of H-OPy, [Cl 2(OPr (i))Ti(mu c-OPy)] 2 ( 5) was isolated from toluene and (OPy)TiCl 2(OPr (i))(py) ( 6) from py. An additional equivalent of H-OPy led to the monomeric species (OPy) 2TiCl 2 ( 7). Because of the low solubility and similarity in constructs of these compounds, additional analytical data, such as the beryllium dome or BeD-XRD powder analyses, were used to verify the bulk samples, which were found to be in agreement with the single crystal structures.
ABSTRACT
The reaction of [Ti(mu-ONep)(ONep)3]2 (ONep = OCH2C(CH3)3) with a series of heterocyclic methanol derivatives [tetrahydrofurfuryl alcohol (H-OTHF), thiophene methanol (H-OTPM), or 2-pyridylcarbinol (H-OPy)-collectively termed H-OR*], led to the isolation of a novel family of OR*-substituted titanium alkoxide precursors. Independent of the initial stoichiometry for the H-OTHF reaction, a monosubstituted, dinuclear species was isolated as [(ONep)3Ti(muc-OTHF)]2 (1). For 1, each Ti was octahedrally (Oh) bound by three terminal ONep ligands, one bidentate bridging OTHF ligand (muc-OTHF), and an oxygen from the other muc-OTHF ligand. For the OTPM derivatives, the product was identified as [(ONep)3Ti(mu-OTPM)]2 (2). For this ligand, the soft S atom does not bind to the Ti but the O atom does act as a bridge between the two trigonal bipyramidal bound Ti metal centers. The OPy system yielded (OPy)2Ti(OR)2 independent of the OR and the stoichiometry used [OR = ONep (3), OCHMe2 (4), OCMe3 (5)]. For 3-5, the two OPy ligands chelate to the Oh-bound Ti metal center with two terminal OR ligands. Compounds 1-5 were fully characterized using a variety of analytical techniques. An initial investigation of the proposed chemical stability of the '(OPy)2Ti' moiety of 3-5 to alcoholysis exchange pathways involving (i) alkyl alcohols, (ii) aryl alcohols, (iii) substituted phenols, (iv) H-OR* derivatives, and (v) silanols proved successful through the isolation of a novel family of structurally characterized (OPy)2Ti(OR')2 (7-24) compounds.
