Scandium, Yttrium and the Lanthanides

This review covers all organometallic complexes of Sc, Y and the lanthanides reported in the year 2000 and their reactions. Endohedral fullerene complexes of the lanthanides have, as usual, been excluded. Highlights this year include striking reports of lanthanides in non-classical oxidation states (Sections 3.2 and 5), a remarkable reversible dinitrogen activation described in Section 3.9.2 and evidence for the existence of the divalent hydrides LnH2(THF)2 (Ln = Sm, Yb) (Section 3.10). In addition Evans has assessed the utility of electrospray mass spectrometry for the characterization of organolathanides. The results are promising and the spectra and dissociation patterns show sensitivity to the metal and its oxidation state.  

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F, a. Hart, Scandium, Yttrium and the Lanthanides, in Comprehensive Coordination Chemistry, Vol. 3, pp. 1059- 127, Pergamon Press, Oxford, 1987. 

This, the second volume of the series, covers the period October 1971 to September 1972 and follows the layout previously adopted in Volume 1 with only a few minor variations (see List of Contents). Thus Chapter 1 contains an account of the Chemistry of the Early Transition Metals excluding Scandium, Yttrium, and the Lanthanides. The Chemistry of the Elements of the first transition series Manganese to Copper is discussed in Chapter 2. Chapter 3 deals with the Noble Metals (Ru, Os, Rh, Ir, Pd, Pt, Ag, and Au) and Chapter 4 the Lanthanides (including Sc,Y, and La) and Actinides. 

F. T. Edelmann, Scandium, yttrium and the lanthanide and actinide elements, excluding their zero oxidation state complexes in Comprehensive Organometallic Chemistry II (eds. E. W. Abel, EG. A. Stone and G. Wilkinson), Elsevier, Oxford, 1995, vol. 4 (ed.M.F. Lappert), ch. 2. 

Scandium, Yttrium and the Lanthanides Table 5 Thermodynamic Parameters419 for the Reaction... 

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