Citation for published item:quti¡ errez eij sD tuli nd r doEqonj lD tes¡ us nd ¡ evil fr ndeD h vid nd erryD s n nd wor¡ nD imilio nd hmidtD iner @PHIUA 9wi row veE ssisted synthesisD mi rostru tureD nd m gneti properties of r reEe rth o ltitesF9D snorg ni hemistryFD ST @IAF ppF TPUETQQF Further information on publisher's website:This document is the Accepted Manuscript version of a Published Work that appeared in nal form in Inorganic Chemistry, copyright c 2016 American Chemical Society after peer review and technical editing by the publisher. To access the nal edited and published work see https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.6b02557. Additional information:Use policyThe full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-pro t purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. AbstractThe series of perovskite rare-earth (RE) doped cobaltites (RE)CoO3 (RE = La -Dy) was prepared by microwave-assisted synthesis. The crystal structure undergoes a change of symmetry depending on the size of the RE cation. LaCoO3 is rhombohedral, S.G. , while for the rest of the RE series (Pr -Dy) the symmetry is orthorhombic, S.G. Pnma (No. 62). The crystal structure obtained by X-Ray diffraction was confirmed by high resolution transmission electron microscopy, which yielded a good match between experimental and simulated images. It is further shown that the well-known magnetism in LaCoO3, which involves a thermally induced Co 3+ (d 6 ) low spin to intermediate or high spin state transition, is strongly modified by RE-doping and a rich variety of magnetic order has been detected across the series.