The importance of rare earth metals has grown tremendously in recent years, with continued improvements in scintillators, dyes, magnetic materials, and catalysis. The design of complexes for these applications is trending toward more complex ligand sets that require inert reaction conditions. There currently exist only a handful of anhydrous rare earth starting materials, many of which are difficult to access due to harsh reaction conditions, or are challenging to use due to low solubility and reactivity. We will report a facile and efficient route to a new anhydrous rare earth starting material series with improved properties, diverse reactivity, and full characterization. This general and powerful chemistry eliminates the need for harsh conditions and reagents, and provides easy purification of the products.

Highly functional rare Earth starting materials

2019 Fall National Meeting

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