Rare Earth Salts & Compounds

Rare earth salts provide soluble, reactive forms of the lanthanides for synthesis, catalysis and materials preparation. This sub-category supplies nitrates, acetates, chlorides, bromides, sulphates and ammonium double salts of cerium, lanthanum, europium, ytterbium and others. Examples include Ammonium ceric nitrate (CAN) and Ammonium ceric sulphate in standard and GR grades, Cerium(III) acetate in two grades and Cerium(III) bromide anhydrous at 99.95%.

Ceric ammonium nitrate is a strong one-electron oxidant used to remove PMB protecting groups and to oxidise alcohols and aromatics. Ceric sulphate solutions are standard oxidants in cerimetric titrations. Anhydrous lanthanide halides are used in organometallic chemistry and scintillator crystals, so they must be kept rigorously dry. Lanthanide triflates and nitrates catalyse many organic reactions under mild conditions.

Hydrated salts ship in sealed bottles, while anhydrous halides are packed under argon. Each lot comes with a COA reporting purity on a rare earth basis and an SDS. Oxidising salts travel under dangerous-goods rules.