Structural Speciation Attempts in the Binary Ti(IV)-Citrate System in Aqueous Media

Authors:
P. Panagiotidis, E. Kefalas, A. Salifoglou

Titanium is an early transition metal, which has found numerous applications. The wide use of titanium in applied materials, ranging from surgical orthopedic prosthetics to various industrial alloys, has prompted pertinent studies targeting the synthesis, spectroscopic, and structural characterization of Ti(IV) species involving the physiologically relevant citric acid. Our initial synthetic efforts on the Ti(IV)-citrate system led to Na6[Ti(C6H4.5O7)2(C6H5O7)] . 16H2O and Na3(ΝΗ4)3[Ti(C6H4.5O7)2(C6H5O7)·9H2O crystalline materials