Ellis CrawfordThe final Chemical Science Pick of the Week before Christmas is going back to the future (of organolanthanide chemistry)!
Nolwenn Mahieu, Jakub Piątkowski, Thomas Simler and Grégory Nocton (École polytechnique) cover the evolution of organolanthanide chemistry in their Perspective.
The paper is free to read, via Chemical Science's Diamond Open Access publication model:
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Back to the future of organolanthanide chemistry
At the dawn of the development of structural organometallic chemistry, soon after the discovery of ferrocene, the description of the LnCp3 complexes, featuring large and mostly trivalent lanthanide ions, was rather original and sparked curiosity. Yet, the interest in these new architectures rapidly dwindled due to