ABSTRACT
The chemistry of titanium is of considerable importance, primarily because of its roles as a catalyst in various chemical reactions (e.g., silane polymerization (1), hydrosilation (2), and Ziegler-Natta (3) polymerization), as materials and materials precursors, and as the basis for electronic and magnetic devices. In the past several years, the interest in titanium chemistry in this group has focused on its fundamental molecular and electronic structure in a variety of chemical environments, on its function as a catalyst in the hydrosilation and bis-silylation reactions, and on the nature of the structure, bonding, and mechanism of forma tion of metallocarbohedrenes.
