Titanium complexes nitrogen ligands

The i5p-titanium(IV) atom is hard, ie, not very polarizable, and can be expected to form its most stable complexes with hard ligands, eg, fluoride, chloride, oxygen, and nitrogen. Soft or relatively polarizable ligands containing second- and third-row elements or multiple bonds should give less stable complexes. The stabihty depends on the coordination number of titanium, on whether the ligand is mono- or polydentate, and on the mechanism of the reaction used to measure stabihty. 

Analogous to the work on dipicolinic acid reported in Section 31.5.2, a range of titanium(IV) peroxo complexes (35) have been prepared which encompass an oxygen-nitrogen anionic chelating ligand and hexamethylphosphortriamide.171 The crystal structure of... 

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