Handbook on the physics and chemistry of rare earths. Volume 32 / editors, Karl A. Gschneidner, Jr., LeRoy Eyring, Gerry H. Lander

This volume of the handbook covers a variety of topics with three chapters dealing with a range of lanthanide magnetic materials, and three individual chapters concerning equiatomic ternary ytterbium intermetallic compounds, rare-earth polysulfides, and lanthanide organic complexes. Two the chapters also include information of the actinides and the comparative lanthanide/actinide behaviors. Covers topics pertaining to solid state physics and materials science, and describes organic (and inorganic) reactions mediated by tetravalent cerium-based oxidants and by divalent samarium-based reductants. This book also focuses on the synthesis and use of divalent samarium-based reductants in organic and inorganic reactions. The elasticity and magnetism in magnetic materials are explained by electrostatic interactions between the nucleus and the electrons.