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Spontaneous Oxidative Addition of σ‐SiSi Bonds at Gold
Author(s) -
Gualco Pauline,
Ladeira Sonia,
Miqueu Karinne,
Amgoune Abderrahmane,
Bourissou Didier
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.201103719
Subject(s) - oxidative addition , phosphine , chemistry , bond , reductive elimination , oxidative phosphorylation , gold alloys , nanotechnology , materials science , organic chemistry , business , catalysis , biochemistry , finance , alloy
Gold can do it! The activation of disilanes at gold was observed experimentally and analyzed theoretically. Upon chelation with two or even only one phosphine donor, the oxidative addition of σ‐SiSi bonds proceeds readily at low temperatures. These results show an unexpected similarity between gold and the other late transition metals towards σ bond activation.