Titanium(IV) nitrate

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Titanium(IV) nitrate
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Names
Other names
titanium tetranitrate, tetranitratotitanium
Identifiers
3D model (JSmol)
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PubChem CID
  • InChI=1S/4NO3.Ti/c4*2-1(3)4;/q4*-1;+4
    Key: QDZRBIRIPNZRSG-UHFFFAOYSA-N
  • [Ti](O[N+]([O-])=O)(O[N+]([O-])=O)(O[N+]([O-])=O)O[N+]([O-])=O
Properties
Ti(NO3)4
Molar mass 295.8866 g/mol
Appearancewhite volatile solid
Density 2.192 [3]
Melting point 58 [4]  °C (136 °F; 331 K)
Boiling point decompose
Reacts [5]
Structure [6]
monoclinic
P21/C
a = 7.80, b = 13.57, c = 10.34 Å
α = 90°, β = 125·0°, γ = 90°
896.52 Å3
4
8
flattened tetrahedral
Related compounds
Related compounds
hafnium nitrate, zirconium nitrate, titanium phosphate, titanium perchlorate
Except where otherwise noted, data are given for materials in their standard state (at 25 °C [77 °F], 100 kPa).

Titanium nitrate is the inorganic compound with formula Ti(NO3)4. It is a colorless, diamagnetic solid that sublimes readily. It is an unusual example of a volatile binary transition metal nitrate. Ill defined species called titanium nitrate are produced upon dissolution of titanium or its oxides in nitric acid.

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Preparation

Similarly to its original method, [7] [8] Ti(NO3)4 is prepared by the nitration of titanium tetrachloride using dinitrogen pentoxide [9] or chlorine nitrate: [10]

TiCl4 + 4 N2O5 → Ti(NO3)4 + 4 ClNO2

Hydrated titanium nitrate, the nitrate salt of the aquo complex [Ti(H2O)6]3+, is produced upon dissolution of titanium compounds in nitric acid. [11]

Structure

The complex has D2d symmetry, with four bidentate nitrate ligands. The N-O distances are 1·29 Å and 1·185 Å (noncoordinated). [6]

Physical properties

In the infrared spectrum, it absorbs strongly at 1635 cm−1, assigned to a N-O vibrational mode. [12]

It is soluble in nonpolar solvents silicon tetrachloride and carbon tetrachloride. [13] [8]

Reactions

Titanium nitrate is hygroscopic, converting to ill-defined hydrates. [14] The anhydrous material is highly reactive, even toward hydrocarbons. [14] Titanium nitrate also reacts with n-dodecane, [15] p-dichlorobenzene, anisole, and biphenyl. [15] [16]

It decomposes thermally to titanium dioxide. [17]

References

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  2. "ICSD 26639 : ICSD Structure : N4 O12 Ti". Cambridge Structural Database: Access Structures. Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre . Retrieved 2021-05-08.
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  4. Chemistry of the Elements (Second Edition). N. N. Greenwood and A. Earnshaw. P966. 21.3.4 Compounds with oxoanions
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  8. 1 2 Schmeisser, Martin (1955). "Die Chemie der anorganischen Acylnitrate (ein Problem des Nitrylchlorids) und Acylperchlorate (ein Problem des Dichlorhexoxyds)". Angewandte Chemie (in German). 67 (17–18): 493–501. Bibcode:1955AngCh..67..493S. doi:10.1002/ange.19550671708. ISSN   0044-8249.
  9. P. Ehrlich "Titanium Tetranitrate" in Handbook of Preparative Inorganic Chemistry, 2nd Ed. Edited by G. Brauer, Academic Press, 1963, NY. Vol. 1. p. 1237.
  10. Schmeisser, M.; Brandle, K. Acyl nitrates and perchlorates. IV. ClNO3 as starting material for acyl nitrates. Angewandte Chemie, 1957. 69: 781. ISSN: 0044-8249.
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  12. Addison, C. C.; Logan, N.; Wallwork, S. C.; Garner, C. D. (1971). "Structural Aspects of Co-ordinated Nitrate Groups". Quarterly Reviews, Chemical Society. 25 (2): 289. doi:10.1039/qr9712500289.
  13. Amos, D.W.; G.W. Flewett (1974). "Raman spectra of titanium (IV) and tin (IV) nitrates". Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular Spectroscopy. 30 (2): 453–461. Bibcode:1974AcSpA..30..453A. doi:10.1016/0584-8539(74)80085-1. ISSN   0584-8539.
  14. 1 2 Amos, D.W.; D.A. Baines, G.W. Flewett (1973). "Nitration by titanium (IV) nitrate". Tetrahedron Letters. 14 (34): 3191–3194. doi:10.1016/S0040-4039(00)79808-X. ISSN   0040-4039.
  15. 1 2 Coombes, Robert G.; Leslie W. Russell (1974). "Nitration of aromatic compounds by tetranitratotitanium(IV) in carbon tetrachloride solution". Journal of the Chemical Society, Perkin Transactions 2 (7): 830. doi:10.1039/P29740000830. ISSN   0300-9580.
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  17. Allendorf, Mark Donald (1999-01-01). "Titanium Oxide CVD from Titanium (IV) Nitrate ...". Proceedings of the Symposium on Fundamental Gas-Phase and Surface Chemistry of Vapor-Phase Materials Synthesis. The Electrochemical Society. pp. 395–397. ISBN   9781566772174 . Retrieved 27 September 2014.

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