Synthesis, crystal structure and thermal properties of Na2Ti(CF3COO)6(CF3COOH)2

The compound Na₂Ti(CF₃COO)₆(CF₃COOH)₂ was synthesized as colorless crystals, extremely unstable in air, by the reaction of TiCl₄ with trifluoroacetic acid and sodium trifluoroacetate. Crystallographic studies have shown that this sodium trifluoroacetatotitanate is the first example of a tetravalent titanium carboxylate [Ti(RCOO)₆]²– containing titanium in an octahedral environment of oxygen atoms of carboxylate groups. Thermal decomposition of Na₂Ti(CF₃COO)₆(CF₃COOH)₂ in an argon atmosphere results in the complex fluoride Na₂TiF₆.