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JOURNAL OF ORGANOMETALLIC CHEMISTRY
Volume 723, Issue -, Pages 108-114Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.jorganchem.2012.10.002
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Gold(III); N-heterocyclic dicarbene; Halogen oxidative addition; Dinuclear complexes
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- University of Padova [CPDA085452]
- University of Padova (HELIOS)
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Cl-2, Br-2, and I-2 are effective agents for the oxidative addition of carbene-coordinated Au(I) centres in [Au-2(MeIm-xylylene-ImMe)(2)](PF6)(2). The resulting complexes depend on the type of xylylene bridge between the two carbene units. With m- and p-xylylene, the obtained products are always the Au(III)/Au(III) complexes [Au2X4(MeIm-m,p-xylylene-ImMe)(2)](PF6)(2) (X = Cl, Br, I). By contrast, with the o-xylylene bridge only in the reaction with iodine the Au(III)/Au(III) complex is isolated as the unique compound, while with chlorine or bromine a mixture of two complexes, the usual Au(III)/Au(III) and the Au(II)/Au(II) [Au2X2(MeIm-o-xylylene-ImMe)(2)](PF6)(2) (X = Cl, Br), is obtained. This different behaviour is attributable to a greater tendency of o-xylylene bridge to favour an approach of the gold centres compared to the m-and p-analogues. (C) 2012 Elsevier B. V. All rights reserved.
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