Lanthanide organometallics

The organic hgands of the actinide and lanthanide organometallics will be used here as an arbitrary basis of classification. The emphasis will be on the structure and bonding of these compounds rather than their S5uithetic chemistry. Several earher reviews exist which cover the chemical aspects of the organoactinides and -lanthanides [1—7). 

Kohn RD, Kociok-Kohn G, Schumann H (1994) Scandium, yttrium and the lanthanides organometallic chemistry. In King RB (ed) Encyclopedia of inorganic chemistry. Wiley, New York... 

Chemists became first interested in catalytic applications of organolanthanides when it turned out, that some lanthanide organometallics are highly active as olefin polymerization catalysts [8], The first indications of catalytic activity of organolanthanides came from the observation, that active species were formed... 

Keywords Aluminum Diene polymerization Lanthanides Organometallics ... 

Compounds of these metals involving either a- or tt-bonds to carbon are generally much more reactive to both air and water than those of the d-block metals. Thus there is no lanthanide equivalent of ferrocene, an unreactive air- and heat-stable compound. They are often thermally stable to 100 °C or more, but are usually decomposed immediately by air (and are not infrequently pyrophoric). Within these limitations, lanthanide organometallic compounds have their own special features, often linked with the large size of these metals. 

Actinides Inorganic Coordination Chemistry Scandium, Yttrium the Lanthanides Organometallic Chemistry. 

Based in part on the article Scandium, Yttrium the Lanthanides Organometallic Chemistry by R. D. Kohn, G. Kociok-Kohn, H. Schumann which appeared in the Encyclopedia of Inorganic Chemistry, First Edition. 

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