Titanosiloxanes consisting of tetrahedrally coordinated Ti cores and branched siloxane cages

Dalton Trans. 2024 Nov 21. doi: 10.1039/d4dt02848a. Online ahead of print.

Abstract

Well-defined titanosiloxane molecules with tetrahedrally coordinated Ti centers were synthesized by using monosilanol-functionalized siloxane cages as building blocks. The Ti sites are modified with -OSi(OSi)3 units, which is analogous to Ti-containing zeolites. Such titanosiloxane molecules are important as models for Ti-containing silica-based catalysts.