Gold corroles

Although a variety of conditions proved unsuccessful for gold insertion into beta-unsubstituted meso-triarylcorroles, refluxing free-base beta-octabromo-meso-triarylcorrole ligands, H-3[Br8T(p-X-P)C] (X = MeO, n-Bu, CH3, H, and CF3), with chloroauric acid in dichloromethane containing a small amount of triethylamine for 30 min led to 54-65% yields of the corresponding gold complexes.