The number of rare earth (RE) starting materials used in synthesis is staggering, ranging
from simple binary metal-halide salts to borohydrides and “designer reagents” such as alkyl …

The discovery that some bis-(phthalocyaninato) lanthanide complexes are molecular
magnets triggered interest in lanthanide ion complexes. Theoretical and experimental …

Nylon‐6 is selectively depolymerized to the parent monomer ϵ‐caprolactam by the readily
accessible and commercially available lanthanide trisamido catalysts Ln (N (TMS) 2) 3 (Ln …

Given the recent advent of mononuclear single‐molecule magnets (SMMs), a rational
approach based on lanthanides with axially elongated f‐electron charge cloud (prolate) has …

Attempts to generate open coordination sites for N2 binding at synthetic Fe–S clusters often
instead result in cluster oligomerization. Recently, it was shown for Mo–Fe–S clusters that …

The first crystallographically characterizable complex of Sc2+,[Sc (NR2) 3]−(R= SiMe3), has
been obtained by LnA3/M reactions (Ln= rare earth metal; A= anionic ligand; M= alkali …

Agostic interactions are covalent intramolecular interactions between an electron deficient
metal and a σ-bond in close geometrical proximity to the metal atom. While the classic cases …

This article reviews the development of the understanding of the coordination number in
lanthanide complexes, showing how it was realized in the 1960s that lanthanide complexes …

The development of bulky monodentate alkoxide, chalcogenolate (ER, E= S, Se or Te),
amide, pnictide (ER2= N, P, As), alkyl, aryl and silyl ligands is briefly surveyed. These …

A spin density functional (SDFT) study of carboxylate-bridged and diazenido-bridged
dinuclear gadolinium compounds is presented. Calculated magnetic coupling constants for …