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SUBMITTER: Pintus A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5113781 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Pintus Anna A Rocchigiani Luca L Fernandez-Cestau Julio J Budzelaar Peter H M PH Bochmann Manfred M
Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) 20160904 40
The hydroauration of internal and terminal alkynes by gold(III) hydride complexes [(C^N^C)AuH] was found to be mediated by radicals and proceeds by an unexpected binuclear outer-sphere mechanism to cleanly form trans-insertion products. Radical precursors such as azobisisobutyronitrile lead to a drastic rate enhancement. DFT calculations support the proposed radical mechanism, with very low activation barriers, and rule out mononuclear mechanistic alternatives. These alkyne hydroaurations are hi ...[more]