This metallocene exists as a bright red solid that is soluble in organic solvents.

It is of academic interest as a precursor to unusual allotropes of elemental sulfur as well as some related inorganic rings.

Titanocene pentasulfide is prepared by treating Cp2TiCl2 with polysulfide salts:[1] It was first produced by the addition of elemental sulfur to titanocene dicarbonyl:[2] The complex is viewed as a pseudotetrahedral complex of Ti(IV).

[3] The molecule exhibits a dynamic NMR spectrum owing to the chair–chair equilibrium of the TiS5 ring which equivalizes the Cp signals at high temperatures.

[4] Cp2TiS5 reacts with sulfur and selenium chlorides, ExCl2, to afford titanocene dichloride and various S5+x and S5Sex rings.