Titantetrafluorid – Eine überraschend einfache Kolumnarstruktur

Titanium Tetrafluoride – a Surprising Simple Column Structure For the first time single crystals of TiF₄ have been obtained by solvothermal decomposition of (O₂)₂Ti₇F₃₀ in anhydrous HF. The colourless, transparent needles crystallize orthorhombic in spacegroup Pnma–D (No. 62) with a = 2 281.1, b = 384.8, c = 956.8 pm, Z = 12. The new type of structure is dominated by isolated columns of corner-linked TiF₆-octahedra.