Symmetrical distortion of the methyl group of methyltrichlorotitanium: gas phase structure and H,H coupling constant
- 1 January 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications
- No. 7,p. 520-522
- https://doi.org/10.1039/c39860000520
Abstract
Electron-diffraction studies show gaseous TiMeCl3 to have a symmetrically ‘flattened’(C3v) methyl group with an H–C–Ti angle of 101.0 ± 2.2°, which is reflected in solution by a most unusual large positive H,H coupling constant of + 11.3 Hz; these data are interpreted in terms of a π-donor interaction of methyl C–H bonds with low-lying metal d-orbitals.Keywords
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