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Inside Back Cover: A Molecular Boroauride: A Donor–Acceptor Complex of Anionic Gold (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 35/2017)
Author(s) -
Taylor Jordan W.,
McSkimming Alex,
Moret MarcEtienne,
Harman W. Hill
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201707176
Subject(s) - cationic polymerization , chemistry , acceptor , ligand (biochemistry) , redox , photochemistry , electron donor , ion , transition metal , cover (algebra) , ruthenium , polymer chemistry , inorganic chemistry , catalysis , organic chemistry , receptor , mechanical engineering , physics , engineering , condensed matter physics , biochemistry
Gold is unusual among the transition metals in that it is stable as an anion (auride). Using a diphosphine ligand derived from diboraanthracene, a donor–acceptor complex of anionic gold has been isolated. In their Communication on page 10413 ff., W. H. Harman et al. show that the auride complex can be reversibly oxidized by two electrons to a cationic gold complex in which the diboraanthracene dissociates, enabling a formal Au(I/−I) redox process.