@hannahredmill.bsky.social 's reaction of a yttrium phosphide complex with carbon dioxide to give a phosphinocarboxylate has just been published as a preprint on @chemrxiv.org: chemrxiv.org/doi/full/10....
Thanks to @jefftyjeffjeff.bsky.social for the help with a gorgeous crystal structure 🤩!
The insertion of carbon dioxide into rare earth metal-phosphorus bonds is underexplored
compared to many other rare earth metal-ligand σ-bonds. Treatment of a C6D6 solution of the dimeric yttrium bis(...