Recent advances in f element reduction chemistry

One of the most rapidly changing frontiers in organometallic chemistry involves the reductive chemistry of organolanthanide and organoactinide complexes. This contribution summarizes recent advances in this area arising from newly available divalent lanthanide systems and the sterically crowded (C5Me5)3M complexes as presented at the ‘Frontiers in Organometallic Chemistry Symposium’ at the National Meeting of the American Chemical Society in Chicago in August 2001.