“…However, the oxidation state +III of [Ce(thd) 3 ] can be stabilized by adding 1,10-phenanthroline to saturate the coordination sphere of the cerium(III) ion (Uhlemann and Dietze, 1971). The salt used to prepare the [Ce(thd) 3 (phen)] thin films of the high-temperature superconductor YBa 2 Cu 3 O 7−x and related compounds by MOCVD (Panson et al, 1989;Yamane et al, 1988;Dickinson et al, 1989;Ozawa, 1991;Busch et al, 1991;Matsuno et al, 1992;Leskelä et al, 1993;Thomas et al, 1993;Yamaguchi et al, 1989Yamaguchi et al, , 1994Richards et al, 1995;Otway and Obi, 1997;Weiss et al, 1997;Galindo et al, 2000;Polyakov et al, 2000;Zama et al, 2000;Meng et al, 2002). In most of these studies, [Y(thd) 3 ] has been used as the precursor for the yttrium component.…”