In recent years, the field of modern organometallic chemistry has witnessed interesting
developments with the cyclooctatetraenyl ligand (abbreviated with COT 2− or C 8 H 8 2−) …

The ligand [{Me3SiCCC (NDipp) 2} Li (thf) 3](Dipp= 2, 6-diisopropylphenyl) was used for salt
metathesis reactions with [AuCl (tht)](tht= tetrahydrothiophene) to obtain the dinuclear …

Reactions of anhydrous lanthanide trichlorides, LnCl 3 (Ln= Ce, Nd, Ho), with 2 equiv. of
lithium-cyclopropylethinylamidinates, Li [cC 3 H 5–Ctriple bondC–C (NR) 2](1a: R= i Pr, 1b …

Reactions of anhydrous lanthanide trichlorides, LnCl3 (Ln= Nd, Sm, Ho), with 3 equiv. of
lithium-cyclopropylethinylamidinates, Li [c-C3H5–CC–C (NR) 2](1a: R= cyclohexyl (Cy), 1b …

The lithium-cyclopropylethynylamidinates Li [c-C3H5–CC–C (NR) 2](1a: R= iPr, 1b: R=
cyclohexyl (Cy)) have been used as precursors for the preparation of five new series of half …

Four new unsolvated lanthanide bis (alkynylamidinato) amide complexes [cC 3 H 5–Ctriple
bondC–C (NR) 2] 2 LnN (SiMe 3) 2 (2: Ln= Ce, R= i Pr; 3: Ln= Ce, R= Cy; 4: Ln= Nd, R= Cy; …

A series of new homoleptic first‐row transition metal and yttrium tris (alkynylamidinate)
complexes have been synthesized and fully characterized. The starting materials [c‐C3H5 …

A series of new alkynylamidinate complexes of selected first and second row transition
metals has been synthesized and fully characterized. Treatment of MCl2 precursors (M= Mn …

The current library of amidinate ligands has been extended by the synthesis of two novel
dimethylamino‐substituted alkynylamidinate anions of the composition [Me2N− CH2− C≡ …

The insertion reactions of lithium silylquinolylamide dimers [{8-(2-R-C9H5N) N (Me3Si)} Li·
OEt2] 2 (R= H, 1a; R= Me, 1b) with dimethylcyanamide afforded dimeric lithium 8 …