Titanium(II) chloride is the
chemical compound
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with the
formula TiCl
2. The black solid has been studied only moderately, probably because of its high reactivity. Ti(II) is a strong reducing agent: it has a high affinity for oxygen and reacts irreversibly with water to produce H
2. The usual preparation is the thermal
disproportionation
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of
TiCl3 at 500 °C. The reaction is driven by the loss of volatile
TiCl4:
::2 TiCl
3 → TiCl
2 + TiCl
4
The method is similar to that for the conversion of
VCl3 into
VCl2 and
VCl4.
TiCl
2 crystallizes as the layered
CdI2 structure. Thus, the Ti(II) centers are octahedrally coordinated to six chloride ligands.
Derivatives
Molecular complexes are known such as TiCl
2(chel)
2, where chel is
DMPE (CH
3)
2PCH
2CH
2P(CH
3)
2 and
TMEDA
Tetramethylethylenediamine (TMEDA or TEMED) is a chemical compound with the formula (CH3)2NCH2CH2N(CH3)2. This species is derived from ethylenediamine by replacement of the four amine hydrogens with four methyl groups. It is a colorless liquid, ...
((CH
3)
2NCH
2CH
2N(CH
3)
2). Such species are prepared by reduction of related Ti(III) and Ti(IV) complexes.
Unusual
electronic effect
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s have been observed in these species: TiCl
2 CH3)2PCH2CH2P(CH3)2sub>2 is paramagnetic with a triplet
ground state, but Ti(CH
3)
2 CH3)2PCH2CH2P(CH3)2sub>2 is diamagnetic.
A solid-state derivative of TiCl
2 is Na
2TiCl
4, which has been prepared by the reaction of Ti metal with TiCl
3 in a NaCl
flux
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. This species adopts a linear chain structure wherein again the Ti(II) centers are octahedral with terminal, axial halides.
References
{{Chlorides
Titanium halides
Chlorides
Titanium(II) compounds