“…This ability to act as a reducing agent has led to several mixed-valent uranium compounds (Villa et al, 2012; Villa, Marr et al, 2013; . Moving towards the lanthanides, lanthanide phosphite compounds have been synthesized in one of two main ways: hydrothermally (Cross et al, 2012;Ewald et al, 2003Ewald et al, , 2005Foulon et al, 1993aFoulon et al, ,b,1995Loukili et al, 1988Loukili et al, , 1991Tijani et al, 1988;Xiong et al, 2006Xiong et al, , 2009Zhang et al, 1992) and phosphite flux reactions (Zakharova et al, 2003). We have expanded this chemistry by exploring solvothermal syntheses of lanthanide phosphites.…”