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 …

In the last two decades, tremendous progress has been made towards the development of
compounds with s-and p-block elements. β-Diketiminate ligands have been widely used in …

Lanthanides are of great importance for the electronic industries, this new book (from the
EIBC Book Series) provides a comprehensive coverage of the basic chemistry, particularly …

The Ln3+ and Ln2+ complexes, Cp′ 3Ln, 1,(Cp′= C5H4SiMe3) and [K (2.2. 2-
cryptand)][Cp′ 3Ln], 2, respectively, have been synthesized for the six lanthanides …

Covalency in Ln–Cl bonds of O h-LnCl6 x–(x= 3 for Ln= CeIII, NdIII, SmIII, EuIII, GdIII; x= 2 for
Ln= CeIV) anions has been investigated, primarily using Cl K-edge X-ray absorption …

Chlorine K-edge X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) and ground-state and time-
dependent hybrid density functional theory (DFT) were used to probe the electronic …

Understanding the nature of covalent (band-like) vs ionic (atomic-like) electrons in metal
oxides continues to be at the forefront of research in the physical sciences. In particular, the …

Design and development of synthetic strategies for the isolation of lower-valent compounds
of p-block elements in the 1980s and 1990s marked the arrival of new classes of ligands in …

Although uranium–π-arene interactions were once viewed as essentially ionic with little
metal–based orbital contributions,[1] covalent δ-backbonding is now recognized as a key …

Molecular nano magnets such as single-molecule magnets (SMMs) are a class of
coordination complexes with numerous potential applications such as information storage …