Talk:Titanium(III) chloride

Ti(III)
Dear Kelly, Smokefoot told me you were working on TiCl3 as part of an assignment, so I will not touch it too much at the moment. I see the page is rapidly expanding, and starts to contain some interesting facts (some that I did not know).

But, I noticed that there are several compounds on the page which are not Ti(III), so which do not have a direct relation to TiCl3 (except that TiCl3 may be the starting material, in which case they might find a place in the reaction section). I don't know if there is a page with a 'parent' Ti(II)-compound, I think that Ti(II) compounds could be moved there, and Ti(IV) compounds could be moved e.g. to either TiCl4 or TiO2.

May I also suggest you to include a section on the paramagnetism in Ti(III) ? I know it is a difficult subject, but I think it is an important property, after all it is the first transition metal in the periodic table that (within reason) has an oxidation-state that is paramagnetic, and people performing chemistry are either using Ti(III) because of it's paramagnetism, or will encounter the paramagnetism in the analysis of their products.

(I also posted this on your user-talk page) --Dirk Beetstra 07:49, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

Synthesis from Ti metal and HCl
The website http://81.207.88.128/science/chem/exps/titanium/index.html provides instructions for synthesizing TiCl3 by dissolving titanium metal in hydrochloric acid in the absence of air. The reaction mix is first heated, presumably to remove the titanium dioxide on the titanium metal. It also provides photos. If no one objects, I will add this to the synthesis section. --Pyrochem 05:25, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

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Explosive?
-TiCl3 is explosive when in contact with water (see sds: https://www.sigmaaldrich.com/US/en/product/sial/14010). Saying that it is soluble in water seems suspect. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:4041:4521:B400:F8C9:24ED:B04D:B207 (talk) 21:56, 3 January 2023 (UTC)


 * Valid point. The article is reasonably well curated, but indeed many anhydrous compounds could explode if treated with water in some idiotic way. If we wrote to prevent idiocy, Wikipedia would be less useful.--Smokefoot (talk) 19:17, 4 January 2023 (UTC)


 * Does the ferocity of the reaction depend on the quantity of TiCl3 in contact with water? Greenwood & Earnshaw (p. 965) mentions that ZrX3 and HfX3 reduce water but aqueous solutions of TiX3 are stable under inert atmospheres. --Ben (talk) 23:22, 4 January 2023 (UTC)