Issue 1, 2015

Titanocene(iii) pseudohalides: an ESR and structural study

Abstract

A series of complexes of the type [Ti(′Cp)2Y] {′Cp = η5-C5H5 (Cp), η5-C5H4SiMe3 (SiCp), η5-1,3-C5H3(Me3Si)2 (Si2Cp); Y = Cl, CN, NCS, NCSe, dicyanamide (dca), tricyanomethanide (tcm) and 1,2,3,4-thiatriazol-5-thiolate (ttt)} were prepared and studied by ESR spectroscopy. Ring-substituted compounds [Ti(SiCp)2Cl], [Ti(Si2Cp)2Cl], [Ti(SiCp)2CN] and [Ti(Si2Cp)2CN] dissolved in coordinating solvents exist in an equilibrium with solvated species. The thiatriazolthiolate ligand in complexes [Ti(′Cp)2(ttt)] behaves as a S,N-chelator to yield a thermally unstable 4-membered chelate ring having the ESR signal with significant splitting due to coupling with one 14N nucleus. Solutions of [Ti(′Cp)2Y] (Y = NCS, NCSe, dca and tcm) readily dissolve the additional pseudohalide salt giving anionic species [Ti(′Cp)2Y2] with a characteristic ESR pattern caused by super-hyperfine splitting by two 14N nuclei. Cyanide complexes dissolve additional KCN as well, but no coupling to ligand nuclei (neither 14N nor 13C) was observed. The frozen-solution ESR spectra of [Ti(Si2Cp)2Cl], [Ti(Si2Cp)2CN] and [Ti(′Cp)2Y] (Y = NCS, NCSe and ttt) are typical for monomeric species of rhombic symmetry. The remaining complexes form dimeric {[Ti(Cp)2Cl]2, [Ti(SiCp)2Cl]2, [Ti(′Cp)2dca]2, and [Ti(′Cp)2tcm]2} or trimeric {[Ti(SiCp)2CN]3} adducts under these conditions. The nuclearity of [Ti(Cp)2CN] cannot be accurately determined by ESR spectroscopy due to its poor solubility but the presence of species with a higher spin ground state was confirmed (similar to the case of the above-mentioned dimers and trimer) by the observation of formally forbidden half-field transition. The reported results of the crystal structure analysis of [Ti(SiCp)2Cl], [Ti(Cp)2tcm], [Ti(SiCp)2tcm], [Ti(SiCp)2dca], [Ti(SiCp)2CN], and [TiCp2(NCS)]2O corroborate the findings based on spectroscopic measurements.

Graphical abstract: Titanocene(iii) pseudohalides: an ESR and structural study

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
20 Aug 2014
Accepted
29 Oct 2014
First published
30 Oct 2014
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY-NC license

New J. Chem., 2015,39, 576-588

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Titanocene(III) pseudohalides: an ESR and structural study

M. Křižan, J. Honzíček, J. Vinklárek, Z. Růžičková and M. Erben, New J. Chem., 2015, 39, 576 DOI: 10.1039/C4NJ01404A

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