Reactions of Cp
2TiCl
2 (Cp =
5-cyclopentadienide) with 2 or 1 equiv of hybrid P-S lig
ands (L), (CH
3)
2P(CH
2)
nS
-(
n = 2, dmpet;
n = 3, dmppt), produced new dicyclopentadienyltitanium(IV) complexes with L, Cp
2Ti(L-
S)
2(
1, L = dmpet;
2, L = dmppt)
and [Cp
2Ti(L-
2S,P)]BPh
4 (
3, L = dmpet;
4, L = dmppt). The Ti(III) complexes,Cp
2Ti(L-
2S,P) (
5, L = dmpet;
6, L
= dmppt), were prepared by the reaction of Cp
2Ti(
3-C
3H
5) with 1 equiv of L.The structures of complexes
1-
6 were confirmed by X-ray diffraction analyses. It was found that complexes
3 and5 were isostructural around Ti(IV)
and Ti(III) centers: the Ti(IV)-S bond length in
3 (2.3498(9) Å) is shorter by 0.14Å than Ti(III)-S in
5 (2.4877(7) Å), while Ti(IV)-P (2.534(1) Å) was merely 0.05 Å shorter than Ti(III)-P (2.5844(7)Å). The redox potential between
3 and 5 in acetonitrile was -1.14 V vs the ferricinium/ferrocene couple. Aheterobimetallic complex that has the frame of complex
1, [Cp
2Ti(dmpet)
2Cu]PF
6 (
7), was also isolated
and structurallycharacterized: the Ti-Cu distance (2.95(1) Å) was shorter than that in [Cp
2Ti(SC
2H
4PPh
2)
2Cu]BF
4, previously reportedby White
and Stephan. Structural characterization was also carried out for Cp*Ti(dmpet-
S)
2(dmpet-
2S,P) (
8)
andCpTiCl
2(dmppt-
2S,P) (
9), which were obtained by the reactions of Cp*(or Cp)TiCl
3 (Cp* =
5-C
5Me
5-) with
n equiv (
n = 1-3) of L. The mutual site-exchange reaction between phosphorus atoms on a coordinated dmpetin the
2S,P mode
and on two other coordinated dmpet's in the
S mode within complex
8 was analyzed by thevariable-temperature
31P{
1H} dynamic NMR method. The kinetic parameters for this process,
kex298 = 1.9 × 10
5s
-1,
H![](/images/entities/thermod.gif)
= 48 kJ mol
-1,
and
S![](/images/entities/thermod.gif)
= 17 J mol
-1 K
-1, as well as the rather long Ti(IV)-P distance (2.652(1) Å),indicate the fluxional nature of the coordination geometry in complex
8.