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SUBMITTER: Mankad NP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2939925 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of the American Chemical Society 20100901 37
Previously, alkylgold(III) fluorides have been proposed as catalytic intermediates that undergo C-C coupling with reagents such as arylboronic acids in Au(I)/Au(III) cross-coupling reactions. Here is reported the first experimental evidence for this elementary mechanistic step. Complexes of the type (NHC)AuMe (NHC = N-heterocyclic carbene) were oxidized with XeF(2) to yield cis-(NHC)AuMeF(2) products, which were found to be in equilibrium with their fluoride-dissociated, dimeric [(NHC)AuMe(μ-F)] ...[more]