Crystal structure of a rare trigonal bipyramidal titanium(IV) coordination complex: tri­chlorido­(3,3′-di-tert-butyl-2′-hy­droxy-5,5′,6,6′-tetra­methyl-1,1′-biphenyl-2-olato-κO (2))(tetra­hydro­furan-κO)­titanium(IV)

The title compound, [Ti(C(24)H(33)O(2))Cl(3)(C(4)H(8)O)], is a rare example of a trigonal–bipyramidal titanium coordination complex with three chloride and two oxygen donor ligands. The asymmetric unit contains two independent mol­ecules having essentially the same conformation. The mol­ecules feature the titanium(IV) metal cation complexed with three chloride ligands, a tetra­hydro­furan mol­ecule, and one oxygen atom from the resolved ligand precursor (R)-(+)-5,5′,6,6′-tetra­methyl-3,3′-di-t-butyl-1,1′-biphenyl-2,2′-diol, where the remaining phenolic hydrogen atom engages in inter­molecular O—H⋯Cl hydrogen bonding. In one mol­ecule, the THF ligand is disordered over two orientations with refined site occupancies of 0.50 (3).