Titanium complexes with sulfur-linked bis(phenolate) ligands

High‐quality crystals of two bis(phenolate)titanium complexes, namely dichlorido{4,4′‐dimethyl‐2,2′‐[cyclohexane‐1,2‐diylbis(sulfanediyl)]diphenolato}titanium(IV), [Ti(C20H22O2S2)Cl2], (I), and dichlorido{2,2′‐[cyclohexane‐1,2‐diylbis(sulfanediyl)]diphenolato}titanium(IV), [Ti(C18H18O2S2)Cl2], (II), were obtained by reactive crystallization. Depending on the solvent, compound (II) was obtained as unsolvated (IIa) or as the toluene hemisolvate, [Ti(C18H18O2S2)Cl2]·0.5C7H8, (IIb). These systems without bulky substituents on the aromatic phenolate rings serve as ideal model compounds for precatalysts. The excellent X‐ray diffraction data will help clarify the nature of the mismatched interactions between the soft S atoms within the ligand and the hard titanium center. Molecule (I) has crystallographic C2 symmetry.