A bonding model for gold(I) carbene complexes
Diego Benítez, Nathan D. Shapiro, Ekaterina Tkatchouk, Yiming Wang, William A. Goddard III, F. Dean Toste
2009Nature Chemistry, 1(6), 482-486472cited
Abstract
An analysis of key intermediates relevant to gold(I) catalysis has been performed using density functional theory. A bonding model is proposed whereby the reactivity of gold(I)-coordinated carbenes is dependent on carbene substituents and ancillary ligands that dictate where these gold structures lie on a continuum ranging from a metal-stabilized singlet carbene to a metal-coordinated carbocation.
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Benítez, D., Shapiro, N. D., Tkatchouk, E., Wang, Y., III, W. A. G., & Toste, F. D. (2009). A bonding model for gold(I) carbene complexes. *Nature Chemistry*, *1*(6), 482-486. https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.331