Cerium masquerading as a Group 4 element: synthesis, structure and computational characterisation of [CeCl{N(SiMe3)2}3]Electronic supplementary information (ESI) available: further details of calculations relating to 3. See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/cc/b1/b103634n/
Abstract
Oxidation of the three-coordinate cerium amide [Ce{N(SiMe3)2}3] with TeCl4 in toluene solution yields purple, diamagnetic [CeCl{N(SiMe3)2}3], whose structure has been examined by X-ray crystallographic and computational methods.