Il. Fedushkin et al., COMPLEXES OF LANTHANUM WITH RADICAL-ANIONS OF 2,2-BIPYRIDYL AND 3,6-DI-TERT-BUTYL-O-BENZOQUINONE, Russian chemical bulletin, 44(11), 1995, pp. 2185-2186
Complexes of a rare-earth element containing only one radical-anion li
gand have been synthesized and isolated in pure states for the first t
ime. The LaI2(bPY)(THF)(3) complex has been prepared from [LaI2(THF)(3
)](2)(C10H8) and 2,2-bipyridyl in DME. The semiquinone complex LaI2(SQ
)(THF)(3) has been obtained by reaction of lanthanum iodide with 3,6-d
i-tert-butyl-o-benzoquinone in THF in the presence of lanthanum powder
. ESR spectra of the complexes have been studied.