Homoleptic dimeric dipyridylamide complexes of the rare earth eleme
nts are obtai
ned by solve
nt-free oxidatio
nreactio
ns of the metals with melts of 2,2'-dipyridylami
ne. As the thermal stabilities of the liga
nd as well as theamide complexes are limiti
ng factors i
n these high-temperature sy
ntheses, several differe
nt metal activatio
n procedureshave bee
n i
nvestigated: the formatio
n of L
n amalgams a
nd dissolutio
n of the metals i
n liquid ammo
nia as well ascoupli
ng to microwaves. For compariso
n with a solve
nt that shows low solubility of the metals a
nd products, reactio
nsi
n 1,2,3,4-tetrahydroqui
noli
ne were also carried out. For all la
ntha
nides a
nd group 3 metals used homoleptic dimersof the formula [L
n2(Dpa)
6], L
n = Ce (
1), Nd (
2), Sm (
3), Ho (
4), Er (
5), Tm (
6), Yb (
7), a
nd Sc (
8) a
nd Dpa
- =(C
5H
4N)
2N
-, were obtai
ned, all co
ntai
ni
ng trivale
nt rare earth io
ns with a distorted square a
ntiprismatic
nitroge
ncoordi
natio
n. Due to the large differe
nces i
n the io
nic radii of the metal io
ns, two differe
nt structure types are fou
ndthat crystallize i
n the space groups
P2
1/
c a
nd
P2
1/
n with the border of the two types bei
ng betwee
n Tm a
nd Yb.The orie
ntatio
ns of two 1,3/1,3-double chelati
ng a
nd li
nki
ng dipyridylamide liga
nds (Dpa
- = (C
5H
4N)
2N
-) result i
ndiffere
nt overall orie
ntatio
ns of the dimers a
nd thus two structure types. All compou
nds were ide
ntified by si
ngle-crystal X-ray a
nalysis. Mid-IR, far IR, a
nd Rama
n spectroscopy, microa
nalyses, a
nd simulta
neous DTA/TG as wellas mass spectrometry regardi
ng their thermal behavior were also carried out to characterize the products. Crystaldata for the two types follow. Ce (
1):
P2
1/
n;
T = 170(2) K;
a = 1063.0(1),
b = 1536.0(1),
c = 1652.0(2) pm;
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ntities/deg.gif">;
V = 2642.2(3) × 10
6 pm
3; R
1 for
Fo > 4
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Fo) = 0.046, wR
2 = 0.120. Sc (
8):
P2
1/
c;
T = 170(2)K;
a = 1073.0(1),
b = 1506.2(2),
c = 1619.8(2) pm;
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ntities/deg.gif">;
V = 2548.9(5) × 10
6 pm
3; R
1 for
Fo > 4
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Fo)= 0.038, wR
2 = 0.091.