“…For this reason, the availability of air-stable S-based rare earth complexes is quite limited. The only serious candidates are the heteroleptic compounds in which the N,N-dialkydithiocarbamate ligand is associated with bidentate nitrogen-donating ligands, in particular [Ln(Et 2 dtc) 3 (phen)] and [Ln(Et 2 dtc) 3 (bipy)] (where Et 2 dtc refers to N,N-diethyldithiocarbamate, phen to 1,10-phenanthroline, and bipy to 2,2 0 -bipyridine), for which the syntheses have already been described in several papers [42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50]. These compounds have been successfully used for synthesis of rare earth sulfides [47].…”