Open AccessGold Catalysis: Recent Developments and Future Trends
Author(s) -
Cristievado
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
chimia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.387
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 2673-2424
pISSN - 0009-4293
DOI - 10.2533/chimia.2010.247
Subject(s) - homogeneous , homogeneous catalysis , catalysis , nanotechnology , ring (chemistry) , perspective (graphical) , chemistry , computational chemistry , materials science , physics , organic chemistry , mathematics , thermodynamics , geometry
The field of homogeneous gold catalysis has developed exponentially over the past ten years. Even if the array of gold-mediated transformations is extremely broad, a common feature stems from the ability of gold to activate unsaturated moieties due to the strong relativistic effects governing its coordination behavior. Starting with a short historical perspective, this review compiles the recent advances in two fundamental areas: first, the rearrangement of propargylic carboxylates and second, ring-expansion processes, both topics of interest in our research group at the Organic Chemistry Institute of the University of Zurich.