“…One structural type is the group consisting of structures (II) and (III) (discussed above), bearing no ancillary ligands except aqua. There are two further structural types, one with phenanthroline as an ancillary ligand, the first formulated as [Ln III (uc À1 )(uc À2 )-(phen) 2 ] (phen is 1,10-phenanthroline), with six isomorphous structures reported [Ln = Eu, Tb and Yb (Sun & Jin, 2004a), Gd (Xiong et al, 2008), Er (Xing et al, 2008a) and Dy (Liu et al, 2009)], and the second formulated as [Ln III 2 (uc À1 ) 4 -(uc À2 )(phen) 4 ], with two isomorphous structures [Ln = Pr (Sun & Jin, 2004a) and Nd (Xing et al, 2008b)]. All of them present a mixture of uc À1 and uc À2 ligands, and their packing indices (in the range 75-77%) are similar to that found for (I) (77.7%), thus confirming the strong cohesion capabilities of the uc group in all the structures in which it takes part.…”