Highly Coordinated Lanthanoid–Phosphane Complexes

More and more lanthanoid–phosphorus bonds and a wide variety of structure variations are found in the complexes prepared from the phosphinomethanide Li[C(PMe2)2(SiMe3)] and lanthanoid triflates. In the homoleptic scandium complex 1, for example, the ligands are bound in a mode intermediate to σ and π coordination.