A simple one-pot route to stable formamidinatoiodidolanthanoid(III) complexes from lanthanoid metals

Zhifang Guo; Victoria L Blair; Glen B Deacon; Peter C Junk

doi:10.1039/d1cc04080d

A simple one-pot route to stable formamidinatoiodidolanthanoid(III) complexes from lanthanoid metals

Chem Commun (Camb). 2021 Nov 2;57(87):11513-11516. doi: 10.1039/d1cc04080d.

Authors

Zhifang Guo^{1

2}, Victoria L Blair¹, Glen B Deacon¹, Peter C Junk²

Affiliations

¹ School of Chemistry, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, 3800, Australia.
² College of Science & Engineering, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, 4811, Australia. peter.junk@jcu.edu.au.

PMID: 34652358
DOI: 10.1039/d1cc04080d

Abstract

A number of formamidinatoiodidolanthanoid(III) complexes, [Ln(DFForm)₂I(thf)₂] and [Ln(DFForm)I₂(thf)₃] (DFFormH = N,N'-bis(2,6-difluorophenyl)formamidine) and [Ln(DippForm)I₂(thf)₃] (DippFormH = N,N'-bis(2,6-diisopropylphenyl)formamidine) have been synthesized in good yields by one-pot direct reactions of the corresponding free metals with iodine and DFFormH or DippFormH in suitable ratios and are stable to rearrangement.