843As known, the most common technique for indus trial isolation of such an important raw material as rare earth elements (REEs) is extraction. Polydentate neu tral organophosphorus compounds have long been studied as extractants for a wide range of REEs [1]. It has been shown that an equimolar mixture of oligo(ethylene glycol) bis(diphenylphosphorylmethyl) ethers with the H form of chlorinated cobalt(III) dicarbollide in solutions of polar diluents are efficient REE extractants [2]. The structures of the REE extraction complexes have been little studied. The extraction of REEs with 1 (methoxydiphenylphos phoryl) 2 diphenylphosphoryl 4 ethylbenzene (L MP ) has been studied [3]. The crystal structure of isostruc tural neodymium and ytterbium complexes with L MP isolated from an extraction solution has been deter mined by X ray crystallography, and the structures of free L MP and its adduct with water and nitric acid have been determined [4]. The same structure of the com plex cation has also been found in the Er compounds with L MP and 1 (methoxydiphenylphosphoryl) 2 diphenylphosphorylbezene, their crystals being obtained under milder synthetic conditions-from neutral solutions [5].The cation exchange extraction of Eu(III) and Sr(II) from aqueous nitrate solutions with diphenyl diphosphine dioxides containing a methyl, ethyl, or poly(ethylene glycol) bridge between the phosphorus atoms has been studied [6]. The IR spectra have pro vided evidence that most of the formed complexes have a chelate structure and that, when taken in high concentration, the ligand with the poly(ethylene gly col) bridge can act as a monodentate ligand. Studying lanthanide complexes in solutions is a challenging task since it requires the use of several methods; it should be noted that NMR and EPR methods are of limited use because most of lanthanide cations exhibit para magnetic properties. X ray crystallography enables the unambiguous determination of the structure of crys talline complexes.Here, were report the synthesis of the M(NO 3 ) 3 · 1.5L complexes (L is 1,6 bis(diphenylphosphoryl) 2,5 dioxahexane; M = Nd (I), Er (II), Eu (III)) and the crystal structure of complex I determined by sin Abstract-Solid complexes M(NO 3 ) 3 ⋅ 1.5L (M = Nd, Er, Eu; L is 1,6 bis(diphenylphosphoryl) 2,5 dioxa hexane) have been synthesized. A new, convenient method of synthesis of L has been suggested. The crystal structure of [Nd 2 (NO 3 ) 6 L 3 ] has been determined by single crystal X ray diffraction. The nonacoordination environments of the Nd(1) and Nd(2) atoms are composed each of six O atoms of bidentate nitrate ions and three phosphoryl O atoms of the L molecules (av. Nd-O, 2.543 and 2.374 Å, respectively). Two independent L molecules act as bridges linking the Nd atoms to form centrosymmetric tetramers [L Nd(NO 3 ) 3 L Nd(NO 3 ) 3 L 2 Nd(NO 3 ) 3 L Nd(NO 3 ) 3 L]. The third L molecule is disordered over two positions with site occupancy factors of 0.602(4) and 0.398(4) so that most of the molecules chelate the terminal Nd atoms in the tetramer, ...