What kinds of titanium complexes can be made?

1 Answer
Apr 17, 2017

Some straightforward examples are #"TiCl"_4# (tetrachlorotitanium(IV)) and #["Ti"("CO")_6]^(2-)# (hexacarbonyltitanate(II)). The former has a #+IV# oxidation state on titanium, and the latter has a #-II# oxidation state. These you might be able to imagine. The former is tetrahedral, and the latter is octahedral.

A cool example is the double decker titanium sandwich shown below (yum!):

There are of course many others, but these are just a few.