Stabilization of imidosamarium(III) cubane by amidinates.
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.
Pan
Cheng-Ling
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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.
Chen
Wan
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Song
Shuyan
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Zhang
Hongjie
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Li
Xingwei
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