Gadolinium isopropoxides

Gadolinium isopropoxide," Gd(0 Pr)3 Colorless microcrystalline powder, sol he, less ROH IR, H, magnetic properties [84]... 

Reductive acylation. Acetates are generated from carbonyl compounds in a Meerwein-Ponndorf-Verley reduction in the presence of isopropenyl acetate. Beside gadolinium(in) isopropoxide, samarium isopropoxide can also be used to induce the reaction. 

Lamellar nanohybrids composed of Ln203 layers regularly separated from each other by organic layers of intercalated benzoate molecules can be obtained by a one-pot procedure (Karmaoui et al., 2006), the benzyl alcohol route. Lanthanide isopropoxides are simply dissolved in benzyl alcohol and reacted at high temperature (250-300 °C), resulting in the isolation of nanoparticles of 50-nm mean size. Eu -doped nanohybrids have better radiance characteristics than the standard phosphor Y203 Eu while both yttrium- and gadolinium-based nanomaterials doped with Nd display intense NIR luminescence, with a Nd( F3/2) lifetime of 49 ps in the case of the yttrium nanohybrid (Sa Ferreira et al., 2006). 

The reactions of gadolinium, erbium, yttrium, and ytterbium isopropoxides with acids or acid anhydrides mono-, di-, and tri-carboxylates depending upon... 

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