Neodymium structure

The metal has a bright silvery metallic luster. Neodymium is one of the more reactive rare-earth metals and quickly tarnishes in air, forming an oxide that spalls off and exposes metal to oxidation. The metal, therefore, should be kept under light mineral oil or sealed in a plastic material. Neodymium exists in two allotropic forms, with a transformation from a double hexagonal to a body-centered cubic structure taking place at 863oC. 

These new silyl complexes are monomeric in benzene solution, but are dimeric in the solid state. The crystal structure of the samarium analogue (Figure 1) shows that dimers form via intermolecular Sm-CH3-Si interactions. The Sm-Si distance, 3.052 (8) A, is to our knowledge the longest metal-silicon distance known. As with other complexes that display Ln-CH3-Si interactions in the solid state, evidence for these interactions in solution is not observed in NMR spectra. The [H NMR chemical shifts for the neodymium... 

Solid-state lasers using substitutional neodymium (Nd3+ ions) as the active defects are widely available. Practical lasers contain about 1% Nd3+ dopant. The most common host materials are glass, yttrium aluminum garnet (YAG), Y3A15012, and calcium tungstate, CaW04. In the crystalline host structures, the defects responsible for amplification are NdY and Ndca-... 

Recently similar complexes of neodymium have been prepared by Karraker 48) containing bromide and iodide in place of chloride. While their chemical properties are similar to the dimeric chloride compound their powder patterns suggest they may have different structures. Since they also have increasing amounts of solvent, the bromide containing three THF molecules and the iodide four, these may be complexes in which the halide bridge is broken by addition of another solvent molecule to give a monomer such as [Ln(COT)X 3 THF]. 

One other structure of a tricyclopentadienide has appeared (57) and it provides a further demonstration of the correlation between ionic size and coordination. Neodymium tris(methylcyclopentadienide) crystallizes as a tetramer (Fig. 10). The Nd + ion (which is slightly larger than Sm3+) is pentahapto bound to three cyclopentadienyl rings and monohapto bound to a fourth ring. This fourth ring is in turn j -bonded to another Nd + ion, until the tetramer is generated. The distances between tetramers are those expected for van der Waals contact. The crystal and molecular parameters are compared with the other tris cyclopentadienyl complexes in Table 5. 

Fig. 10. The crystal and molecular structure of tris(methylcyclopeiitadienyl)neodymium(III), from Ref. (57)...

The chloride ion in this structure is not bound to the neodymium ion but is hydrogen bonded to four water oxygens and the nitrogen atom, which form a distorted tetragonal pyramid around the anion. 

The single crystal X-ray structure of hydrated neodymium hypophosphate, NdHP206-4H20, has been determined.239 The Nd ion is eight-coordinated to four H20 and two bidentate hypophosphate anions. The details of interatomic distances and bond angles were compared with other members of this isostructural series, which extends at least from Nd to Er.240... 

Although they are not macrocyclic ligands, polyethyleneglycols behave somewhat similarly to the crown ethers regarding lanthanide complexation, as established by a number of crystal structure determinations. Thus a series of neodymium complexes shows consistent 10-coordination, namely [Nd(N03)3(tri-eg)],458 where tri-eg is triethyleneglycol, [Nd(N03)2(penta-eg)]N03,458 and [Nd(N03)2(N03)(tetra-eg)],459 where N03 is monodentate. The larger La3+ ion shows 11-coordination in [La(N03)3(tetra-eg)].460... 

Even more powerful are the neodymium—iron—boron magnets that appeared in the mid-1980s (35,36). Magnets derived from the Nd Fe B structure exhibit the highest performances obtained industrially eneigy products are >320 kJ/m3 (>40 x 106 GOe) and coercive fields around 950 kA/m3 (12 kOe). These magnets are in the course of a rapid development, eg, in voice coil motors and the automotive industry. There is a promising forecast for several industrial applications. 

The most important result of the structure studies was undoubtedly the establishment of the fact that the crystalline isopropoxides of all rare earths are not the homoleptic Ln(OPr )3 complexes but oxoalkoxides of Ln50(0Pri)13 composition, where Ln = Sc, Y, Er, Yb (see also Fig. 4.9 a). They appear to be desolvation products of the very unstable [Ln(OPri)3( PrOH)]2 solvates (perfectly soluble and rather reactive) the complex of such composition has been isolated and characterized only for neodymium, but the IR spectroscopic evidence for the existence of such solvates was obtained also for Pr and Er. Desolvation of Ln(OBu )3 2L (Ln = Y, La L = BuOH, THF, Py) leads also to the formation of oxocomplexes the ions corresponding to the fragmentation of the homoleptic species are absent in their mass-spectra (except for [Y3(OBu,)9(tBuOH)2], where the Y3(OR)8+ ion was found along with Y30(0R)6+). The same kind transformations have been observed also for... 

A ternary compound of neodymium with copper and antimony of the stoichiometric ratio 3 3 4 was identified and studied by means of X-ray analysis by Skolozdra et al. (1993). The Nd3Cu3Sb4 compound (3) was found to have the Y3Au3Sb4 type structure with a lattice parameter of a = 0.9661 (X-ray powder diffraction). For experimental details, see the Y-Cu-Sb system. 

The lanthanide phthalocyanine complexes, obtained by conventional methods starting from metal salts at 170-290°C and phthalonitrile (Example 26), contain one or two macrocycles for each metal atom [5,6,8,63,82,84-98]. Thus, according to Refs. 6,63, and 85, the complexes having compositions LnPc2H, XLnPc (X- is halide anion), and Ln2Pc3 (a super-complex ) were prepared from phthalonitrile as a precursor the ratio of the reaction products depends on the synthesis conditions and the metal nature. The ionic structure Nd(Pc)+Nd(Pc)2 was suggested [85] and refuted [63] for the neodymium super-complex Nd2Pc3 the covalent character of the donor-acceptor bonds in this compound and other lanthanide triple-decker phthalocyanines was proved by the study of dissociation conditions of these compounds [63]. 

FIGURE 16 The crystal structures of EuAuPb and NdNiPb. The europium (neodymium), nickel, and lead atoms are drawn as medium gray, black filled, and open circles, respectively. The mixed-occupied Au/Pb site in the EuAuPb structure is shown with segments. The three-dimensional [TPb] networks are emphasized. 

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