Organotitanium fluorides (C
5Me
4R)TiF
3 (R = H, Me, Et) sublimate with formation of crystalline dimers. From solution,we obtained crystals of dimers and tetramers. The tetramer [{(C
5Me
5)TiF
3}
4] irreversibly dissociates in the solidstate to dimers (
H = 8.33 kcal mol
-1). The variable-temperature
1H and
19F NMR spectroscopy measurementsof the toluene-
d8 solution of [{(C
5Me
5)TiF
3}
2] revealed at 202 K one monomeric, two dimeric (with
C2h and
Cssymmetry), two tetrameric (with
D2 and
C2v symmetry), and two trimeric (both
C2 symmetry) molecules. With theincrease in temperature and dilution of the solution, the composition of the solution shifts to the smaller molecules.The thermodynamic and activation parameters for the reversible dissociation of dimers to monomers in the solutionare
H = 9.2 kcal mol
-1,
S = 24.2 cal mol
-1 K
-1,
H![](/images/entities/Dagger.gif)
= 12.2 kcal mol
-1,
S![](/images/entities/Dagger.gif)
= 9.7 cal mol
-1 K
-1. Thedissociation path with a weakly double-bridged transition-state dimer was proposed. The thermodynamic parametersfor the reversible dissociation of the
C2v tetramer to the dimers in solution are
H = 7.9 kcal mol
-1 and
S =26.8 cal mol
-1 K
-1. From both tetramers, the
D2 molecule is 0.34(5) kcal mol
-1 lower in enthalpy and 6.5(5) calmol
-1 K
-1 lower in entropy than the
C2v molecule. The structures of both trimers were proposed. The low-temperature
19F NMR spectra of the CDCl
3 solution of [{(C
5Me
5)TiF
3}
2] are consistent with equilibria of a monomer, two dimers(with
C2h and
Cs symmetry), and a trimer. The vapor pressure osmometric molecular mass determination of CDCl
3solution of [{(C
5Me
5)TiF
3}
2] at 302 K is consistent with the equilibrium of the dimer and the monomer.