“…Not only does the anionic NCHN bite provide a variety of different nitrogen-based coordination modes (e.g., monodentate κ(N), bidentate κ(N,N ), or various bridging modes e.g., µ-1κ(N):2κ(N ), µ-1κ(N,N ):2κ(N,N ) to list a few) [6,7], the nitrogen-bound aromatic substituents can also provide additional coordination modes. The potential to form metal-arene interactions, such as η 6 coordination, has been largely observed in group one chemistry [8][9][10][11][12][13], though some examples are known in f -block chemistry [14]. In almost all examples of this aromatic coordination, the phenyl rings contained alkyl-substituents in either the 2,6 positions (e.g., iPr, Et, Me), or in the 2,4,6 positions (e.g., Me).…”