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Synthesis and Characterisation of Various Diester and Triester Adducts of TiCl4

Blackburn, BJ; Crane, JH; Knapp, CE; Marchand, P; Pugh, D; Parkin, IP; Carmalt, CJ; (2015) Synthesis and Characterisation of Various Diester and Triester Adducts of TiCl4. European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry , 2015 (22) pp. 3666-3673. 10.1002/ejic.201500471. Green open access

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Abstract

Titanium(IV) chloride and the triester glycerol tribenzoate (gtb) were reacted under moisture-free conditions in order to investigate the use of triester-containing oils in the purification of TiCl4 in industrial processes. This resulted in the isolation of a chloro-bridged dimeric complex containing four titanium centres [{(TiCl4)2(gtb)}2] (1). Further novel coordination compounds of TiCl4 and the diesters; diisopropyl malonate, dibenzyl malonate and diethyl succinate were synthesised by direct reaction under moisture-free conditions, yielding [TiCl4{CH2(COOiPr)2}] (2), [TiCl4{CH2(COOCH2Ph)2}] (3) and [TiCl4{C2H4(COOEt)2}] (4) respectively. The structures of compounds 1–4 were determined by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. All structures assumed an octahedral geometry consisting of the titanium bound to four chloride ligands and the diester molecule acting as a bidentate ligand, through its two carbonyl oxygen atoms. Exposure of the isopropyl malonate reaction to trace amounts of water during synthesis resulted in the formation of an oxo-bridged dimeric structure [Ti2(μ-O)Cl3{CH2(COOiPr)2}2] (2b), the structure of which was also obtained via single-crystal X-ray diffraction.

Type: Article
Title: Synthesis and Characterisation of Various Diester and Triester Adducts of TiCl4
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1002/ejic.201500471
Publisher version: https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ejic.201500471
Language: English
Additional information: This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Blackburn, B. J., Crane, J. H., Knapp, C. E., Marchand, P., Pugh, D., Parkin, I. P. and Carmalt, C. J. (2015), Synthesis and Characterisation of Various Diester and Triester Adducts of TiCl4. Eur. J. Inorg. Chem., 2015: 3666–3673. doi: 10.1002/ejic.201500471, which has been published in final form at doi: 10.1002/ejic.201500471. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving.
Keywords: Industrial chemistry, Titanium, Titanium dioxide, Chloride process, Ester adducts
UCL classification: UCL
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URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1474064
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