Reactivity of a Gold-Aluminyl Complex with Carbon Dioxide: A Nucleophilic Gold? | Zendy

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Reactivity of a Gold-Aluminyl Complex with Carbon Dioxide: A Nucleophilic Gold?

Author(s) -

Diego Sorbelli,

Leonardo Belpassi,

Paola Belanzoni

Publication year - 2021

Publication title -

journal of the american chemical society

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 7.115

H-Index - 612

eISSN - 1520-5126

pISSN - 0002-7863

DOI - 10.1021/jacs.1c06728

Subject(s) - chemistry , nucleophile , reactivity (psychology) , electrophile , photochemistry , organic chemistry , catalysis , medicine , alternative medicine , pathology

A gold-aluminyl complex has been recently reported to feature an unconventional gold nucleophilic center, which was revealed through reactivity with carbon dioxide leading to the Au-CO 2 coordination mode. In this work, we computationally investigate the reaction mechanism, which is found to be cooperative, with the gold-aluminum bond being the actual nucleophile and Al also behaving as electrophile. The Au-Al bond is shown to be mainly of an electron-sharing nature, with the two metal fragments displaying a diradical-like reactivity with CO 2 .

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