Ytterbium and samarium metals reduced aromatic ketimines to give directly divalent azalanthanacyclopropane complexes 1 quantitatively, the structure of which was characterized by X-ray analysis. The imine complexes 1 catalyzed dehydrogenative silylation of terminal alkynes, hydrosilylation of imines and alkenes, and intermolecular hydrophosphination of alkynes. Moreover, dehydrogenative double silylation of ...