Amides of the Group 3 and Lanthanide Metals

The most complete subsequent review concerned with the Ln amides is the 1996 chapter by Anwander, described in outline in Section 4.2. Post-1996 surveys have dealt with selected areas. Cotton s contribution on Ln coordination chemistry up to 2001 (and in part 2002) has 95 pages and 1135 references it has a substantial section on Ln amides (ca. 50 refs.), which inevitably were dealt with briefly. 

Metal Amide Chemistry Michael Lappert, Andrey Protchenko, Philip Power and Alexandra Seeber 

CN(R)CH=CHN(CH2)2NBu in Ln chemistry have been explored by P. L. Arnold, et A review by Trifonov, entitled Reactions of ytterbocenes with diimines steric manipulation of reductive reactivity , dealt with reduction of a-diimines and related compounds, which led to Ln amides via electron transfer and/or C-H bond activation. 2  

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