Titanium perchlorate is a molecular compound of titanium and perchlorate groups with formula Ti(ClO4)4. Anhydrous titanium perchlorate decomposes explosively at 130 °C and melts at 85 °C with a slight decomposition. It sublimes in a vacuum as low as 70 °C. Being a molecular with four perchlorate ligands, it is an unusual example of a transition metal perchlorate complex.
Properties
In Ti(ClO4)4, the four perchlorate groups binds as bidentate ligands. Thus the Ti center is bound to eight oxygen atoms.[2] So the molecule could also be called tetrakis(perchlorato-O,O')titanium(IV).[3]
In the solid form it forms monoclinic crystals, with unit cell parameters a=12.451 b=7.814 c=12.826 Å α=108.13. Unit cell volume is 1186 Å3 at -100 °C. There are four molecules per unit cell.[1]
Titanium perchlorate can be formed by reacting titanium tetrachloride with perchloric acid enriched in dichlorine heptoxide.[2] Another way uses titanium tetrachloride with dichlorine hexoxide. This forms a complex with Cl2O6 which when warmed to 55° in a vacuum, sublimes and can crystallise the pure anhydrous product from the vapour.[1]
Related
In the salt dicaesium hexaperchloratotitanate, Cs2Ti(ClO4)6 the perchlorate groups are monodentate, connected by one oxygen to titanium.[4]
Titanium perchlorate can also form complexes with other ligands bound to the titanium atom including binol,[5] and gluconic acid.[6]
A polymeric oxychlorperchlorato compound of titanium, Ti6O4Clx(ClO4)16−x, is made from excess TiCl4 and dichlorine hexoxide. This has a varying composition, and ranges from light to dark yellow.[7]
References
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^ abcdefBabaeva, V. P.; Rosolovskii, V. (1974). "Volatile titanium perchlorate". Bulletin of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR Division of Chemical Science. 23 (11): 2330–2334. doi:10.1007/BF00922105. ISSN0568-5230.
^Babaeva, V. P.; Rosolovskii, V. Ya. (November 1975). "Production of cesium hexaperchloratotitanate by the reaction of titanium perchlorate with cesium perchlorate". Bulletin of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR Division of Chemical Science. 24 (11): 2278–2281. doi:10.1007/BF00921631.
^Fourati, M.; Chaabouni, M.; Pascal, J.L.; Potter, J. (March 1986). "Synthesis and vibrational analysis of new anhydrous oxochloroperchlorato complexes of titanium IV". Journal of Molecular Structure. 143 (1–2): 147–150. Bibcode:1986JMoSt.143..147F. doi:10.1016/0022-2860(86)85225-5.