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Evidence for genuine hydrogen bonding in gold(I) complexes.


ABSTRACT: The ability of gold to act as proton acceptor and participate in hydrogen bonding remains an open question. Here, we report the synthesis and characterization of cationic gold(I) complexes featuring ditopic phosphine-ammonium (P,NH+) ligands. In addition to the presence of short Au∙∙∙H contacts in the solid state, the presence of Au∙∙∙H-N hydrogen bonds was inferred by NMR and IR spectroscopies. The bonding situation was extensively analyzed computationally. All features were consistent with the presence of three-center four-electron attractive interactions combining electrostatic and orbital components. The role of relativistic effects was examined, and the analysis is extended to other recently described gold(I) complexes.

SUBMITTER: Rigoulet M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6320517 | biostudies-other | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other

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Evidence for genuine hydrogen bonding in gold(I) complexes.

Rigoulet Mathilde M   Massou Stéphane S   Sosa Carrizo E Daiann ED   Mallet-Ladeira Sonia S   Amgoune Abderrahmane A   Miqueu Karinne K   Bourissou Didier D  

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20181219 1


The ability of gold to act as proton acceptor and participate in hydrogen bonding remains an open question. Here, we report the synthesis and characterization of cationic gold(I) complexes featuring ditopic phosphine-ammonium (P,NH<sup>+</sup>) ligands. In addition to the presence of short Au∙∙∙H contacts in the solid state, the presence of Au∙∙∙H-N hydrogen bonds was inferred by NMR and IR spectroscopies. The bonding situation was extensively analyzed computationally. All features were consiste  ...[more]

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