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The Dinitrogen‐Ligated Triaurum Cation, Aurodiazenylium, Auronitrenium, Auroammonia, and Auroammonium
Author(s) -
Liang Xinghua,
Wu Xia,
Dong Ting,
Qin Zhengbo,
Tan Kai,
Lu Xin,
Tang Zichao
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201007332
Subject(s) - chemistry , ion , analogy , binary number , inorganic chemistry , stereochemistry , organic chemistry , mathematics , arithmetic , philosophy , linguistics
Go for the gold! Laser‐vaporized abundant Au/N binary cations, such as the title species, and the triaurum cation are structurally and electronically analogous to the N/H species and trihydrogen cation [H 3 ] + , respectively, showing the isolobal analogy between [AuN 2 ] + and H + (see picture).