Crystal and molecular structure of trichloro(2,5,8-trioxanonane)-titanium(III)

Abstract

Crystals of the title compound are orthorhombic, a= 11.38(1), b= 28.77(3), c= 7.125(10)Å, space group Pbn2₁ with Z= 8. 1 094 Above-background reflections collected on a diffractometer have been refined by full-matrix least squares to R 0.062. There are two molecules in the asymmetric unit. In both, the titanium(III) atoms are six-co-ordinate with a fac arrangement of ligands. The metals are bonded to three chlorine atoms [2.31(1)–2.35(1)Å] and to three oxygen atoms of the trioxanonane ligand [2.115(13)–2.182(13)Å]. The ligand conformation is different in the two molecules, being δδ in one and δλ in the other.