The technique of high-temperature high-pressure extraction withpyridine has been successfully utilized toextract a wide variety of endohedral rare-earth fullerenes of the typeLn
C
2n (Ln = La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Sm,Eu,Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, Yb). Ln
C
80,Ln
C
82, and Ln
2C
80 for most ofthe rare-earth metals can beproduced with high-yield and selectively extracted from the carbon-arcevaporation soot. Metallofullerenescontaining Sm, Eu, and Yb (which could have +2 oxidation states) areespecially difficult to extract. Somepossible reasons for the high-yield extraction are discussed. Thelaser desorption mass spectrometriccharacterization results indicate a relationship between the extractionyields of metallofullerenes and theoxidation states and ionic radii of the rare-earths.