title: Stabilization of imidosamarium(III) cubane by amidinates.
abstract: An imidosamarium(III) cubane has been prepared from the reductive cleavage of azobenzene by a divalent samarium bis(amidinate) complex, indicating that the "spectrator" bis(amidinate) and the resulting imido ligands help to stabilize the cubane framework. The cubane-type imido cluster is a novel unit in lanthanide chemistry.
authors: State Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Resource Utilization, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science, Changchun 130022, Jilin, People's Republic of China.
authors: Cheng-Ling
authors: CL
authors: Pan
authors: Wan
authors: W
authors: Chen
authors: Shuyan
authors: S
authors: Song
authors: Hongjie
authors: H
authors: Zhang
authors: Xingwei
authors: X
authors: Li