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Post #3719422
2026-07-10 11:14 UTC
@mxchara@seattle.pink There is a huge amount of activity in organic synthesis using different lanthanides salts - especially, but also complexes wrapped with chiral ligands - acting as Lewis acids to catalyze all manner of transformations. Sc(OTf)3 is particularly prized. Not cheap, mind. So it's got to be pretty good if people are going to use it. 😉
And then there's all the low-valent stuff with samarium to drive either radical reactions or Barbier-type processes with added reduction SmI2 is the bomb!
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@luddchem@mastodon.social 2026-07-10 15:20
@sellathechemist@mastodon.social @mxchara@seattle.pink I know my brother did some early work on lanthanide organometallic polymerisation catalysis system. So did I some Google searching. I know that the AI summaries can be a somewhat flowery, inconsistent and sometimes subtly misleading. But there were lots of words such as "foundational"., etc. What would really have pissed him off, however, was that on some of the iterations the work was attributed to me!