Lanthanide isocyanide complexes

There are scattered reports on isocyanide complexes of other metals including copper and gold, vanadium, and several lanthanides and actinides. 

The PMRs of several triscyclopentadienyl-lanthanide metal complexes of cyclohexyl isocyanide (C5H5)3MCNCgH, (M = Pr, Nd, Ho, Tm, Yb) are reported 159, 160). 

In this article the term organometallic compound includes alkyl and aryl derivatives of the rare earths—the transition metals of group III, scandium, yttrium, lanthanum and the lanthanides cerium to liitetium with covalent metal-to-carbon a-bonds, as well as the so-called 77-complexes with more than monohapto metal-to-carbon bonds, for example cyclopentadienyl and olefin complexes, metal acetylides, but not carbonyls, cyanides and isocyanide complexes. Derivatives of scandium, yttrium and lanthanum are included and discussed together with the compounds of the lanthanides, because of many similarities in the synthesis and the chemistry of these organometallic derivatives of the rare earths. 

Cycloheptatrienes with chromium, 5, 337 in molybdenum carbonyls, 5, 480 tj7-Cycloheptatrienyl complexes, with tungsten carbonyls and isocyanides, 5, 693 Cycloheptatrienyl compounds actinide complexes, 4, 227 with actinides, 4, 226 lanthanide complexes, 4, 122... 

Isobutyl complexes, with Zr(IV) and Hf(IV), 4, 903—904 Isocyanates, lanthanide-catalyzed polymerization, 4, 152 Isocyanides bis-silylation, 10, 747 chalcogen-chalcogen additions, 10, 752 with chromium... 

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