Synthesis and reactivity of [Au(NHC)(Bpin)] complexes

A new class of [Au(NHC)(Bpin)] complexes has been synthesized and their unusual reactivity was investigated using computational and experimental methods. The gold-boryl complexes exhibit unexpected high stability and reactivity.

Citation

Zinser , C M , Nahra , F , Falivene , L , Brill , M , Cordes , D B , Slawin , A M Z , Cavallo , L , Cazin , C & Nolan , S 2019 , ' Synthesis and reactivity of [Au(NHC)(Bpin)] complexes ' , Chemical Communications , vol. 55 , no. 47 . https://doi.org/10.1039/C9CC03171E

Publication

Chemical Communications

Status

Peer reviewed

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1039/C9CC03171E

ISSN

1359-7345

Type

Journal article

Rights

Copyright © 2019 The Author(s). This work has been made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created, accepted version manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at https://doi.org/10.1039/C9CC03171E

Description

The authors gratefully acknowledge the Royal Society (University Research Fellowship to C.S.J.C.), AstraZeneca (Studenship to C.M.Z) and VLAIO (CO2PERATE) for support of this work. We thank King Saud University (DSF Program) and KAUST (Award No.OSR-2015-CCF-1974-03) for support.

Collections

University of St Andrews Research

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/10023/19947