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review article Published online: 24 march 2010 |  doi: 10.1038/nchem.595 novel polymerization catalysts and hydride clusters from rare-earth metal dialkyls masayoshi nishiura and Zhaomin hou* This Review gives an overview on recent progress in the synthesis and chemistry of rare-earth metal dialkyl complexes bearing monoanionic ancillary ligands, with an emphasis on novel polymerization catalysts. These structurally well-defined and highly reactive compounds are prepared either by alkane elimination reactions between trialkyl rare-earth complexes and acidic neu- tral ligands, or by the metathetical reactions of rare-earth trihalides with the alkali metal salts of the corresponding ligands. On treatment with an appropriate borate compound, the dialkyl complexes are converted into the corresponding cationic monoalkyl species, which serve as excellent catalysts for the polymerization and copolymerization of a variety of olefins to yield a series of new polymer materials that exhibit novel properties. Alternatively, hydrogenation of the dialkyl rare-earth complexes with H2 affords a new class of rare-earth polyhydride complexes with unique features in terms of both their structure and reactivity. he development of efficient, selective catalysts for the treatment of the dialkyl complexes with an equimolar amount of (co)polymerization of readily available commodity mono- an appropriate borate compound such as [Ph C][B(C F ) ] or 3 6 5 4 Tmers to make high-performance polymer mat