Diethyl ether adducts of trivalent lanthanide iodides

Thaige P Gompa; Natalie T Rice; Dominic R Russo; Luis M Aguirre Quintana; Brandon J Yik; John Bacsa; Henry S La Pierre

doi:10.1039/c9dt00775j

Diethyl ether adducts of trivalent lanthanide iodides

Dalton Trans. 2019 Jun 21;48(23):8030-8033. doi: 10.1039/c9dt00775j. Epub 2019 May 10.

Authors

Thaige P Gompa¹, Natalie T Rice¹, Dominic R Russo¹, Luis M Aguirre Quintana¹, Brandon J Yik¹, John Bacsa¹, Henry S La Pierre²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0400, USA. [email protected].
² Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0400, USA. [email protected] and Nuclear and Radiological Engineering Program, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0400, USA.

PMID: 31074474
DOI: 10.1039/c9dt00775j

Abstract

The synthesis and structural characterization of the first molecular complexes of lanthanide iodides supported by the weak-base, diethyl ether, are reported. Single-crystal diffraction studies reveal a conserved [LnI₃(mer-Et₂O)₃] structure (Ln = Ce, Pr, Nd, Sm, Gd, Tb, and Tm). These precursors are prepared from lanthanide metal and iodine in diethyl ether for all lanthanides La to Tm (excluding Pm and Eu) and provide the THF adducts in good to excellent (60-91%) yield in a two-step process.