Rare earth starting materials and methodologies for synthetic chemistry

F Ortu - Chemical Reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
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 …

Contrasting behaviour under pressure reveals the reasons for pyramidalization in tris (amido) uranium (III) and tris (arylthiolate) uranium (III) molecules

AN Price, V Berryman, T Ochiai, JJ Shephard… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
A range of reasons has been suggested for why many low-coordinate complexes across the
periodic table exhibit a geometry that is bent, rather a higher symmetry that would best …

Heteroleptic lanthanide (III) complexes: synthetic utility and versatility of the unsubstituted bis-scorpionate ligand framework

T Chowdhury, SJ Horsewill, C Wilson… - Australian Journal of …, 2022 - CSIRO Publishing
The unsubstituted bis-hydrotris (1-pyrazolyl) borate)(Tp) ligand framework has been used to
synthesise a range of heteroleptic Ln (III) coordination complexes [Ln (Tp) 2 (X)]. The …

One-step synthesis of heteroleptic rare-earth amide complexes featuring fluorenyl-tethered N-heterocyclic carbene ligands

KJ Evans, PA Morton, C Sangster, SM Mansell - Polyhedron, 2021 - Elsevier
Reaction of the fluorenyl-tethered imidazolium bromide salt [9-(C 13 H 9) C 2 H 4 N (CH) C 2
H 2 N (Me)][Br](I) with [Y {N (SiMe 3) 2} 3] generated the heteroleptic yttrium complex [Y {(η 5 …