“…Although not very common, distorted hexagonal lattices have already been found in other Ln-anilato compounds with different anilato ligands, solvents and Ln(III) ions [ 40 , 41 , 44 , 55 , 58 , 59 , 60 , 66 , 67 ]. In contrast, phase IIb is rather unusual and has only been observed in a few examples of Ln(III) with different anilato ligands (X = Cl, Br, Cl/CN and t -Bu) [ 40 , 41 , 44 , 48 , 49 , 50 , 51 , 52 , 53 , 54 , 55 , 56 , 57 , 58 , 59 , 60 , 67 ], although it had never been observed with dhbq 2− [ 55 ]. Therefore, compound 1 is the first example of phase IIb with the ligand dhbq 2− .…”