Titanium Tetrachloride → HCID 18175992, compound

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The same apparatus described in Step (1) of Example C is used in this procedure. The 250 mL dropping funnel is charged with toluene, 100 mL, and titanium tetrachloride, 10.7 g (0.0562 mole). This is added dropwise to the flask containing lithium di-n-propylamide while stirring magnetically. Total additions times are typically 30 minutes. The mixture is refluxed for 1.5 hours. All volatiles are removed by distillation and under vacuum to give a deeply colored brown, oily residue. The residue is extracted with hexane, 2×150 mL, then filtered from the lithium salts. The extracts are combined and solvent is removed under vacuum. The remaining oil is transferred to a small scale distillation apparatus. Vacuum distillation at 157° C. and 0.05 mm Hg gave the product as an orange-brown liquid, titanium tetrakis(dipropylamide).

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