Nd, La and Y triphosphates were prepared via the reaction of potassium ionol ethyl phosphate with the corresponding lanthanide nitrates or chlorides in water. According to the X-ray diffraction data, the recrystallised reaction products were dimers. The products did not contain water, were readily soluble in hydrocarbon solvents and demonstrated promising catalytic properties in the polymerisation of butadiene and DL-dilactide.

No abstract

In the first reported crystal structure of the family of lithium phosphate diesters, the Li atom is in a slightly distorted tetra­hedral coordination environment and exhibits one intra­molecular O—H⋯O hydrogen bond between a coordinating methanol mol­ecule and the terminal non-coordinating O atom of the phosphate group. The unit is connected with two non-coordinating methanol mol­ecules through two inter­molecular O—H⋯O hydrogen bonds and with a neighbouring unit through two other O—H⋯O inter­actions.