Cover Feature: Contrasting Reactions of Carbodiimides With Divalent Lanthanoid Species

Reactions of lanthanoid species with carbodiimides (RN=C=NR) show considerable variety. Thus, treatment of divalent, [Sm(OAr Et ) 2 (thf) 3 ]·PhMe with carbodiimides of differing steric bulk resulted in the formation of an oxalamidinatosamarium(III) complex or a formamidinatosamarium(III) complex. Reactions between Yb/Eu metals with bis(phenylethynyl)mercury and N , N' ‐dicyclohexylcarbodiimide yielded trivalent (Yb) and divalent (Eu) C ‐phenylethynylamidinate complexes. More information can be found in the Research Article by P. C. Junk and co‐workers (DOI: 10.1002/chem.202500759). The authors acknowledge Thimira Jayasari for help with the artwork.