Structural studies of gold(I, II, and III) compounds with pentafluorophenyl and tetrahydrothiophene ligands

Article abstract of DOI:10.1002/anie.200604592

(Figure Presented) A golden opportunity was seized to prepare an unbridged, dinucleur gold(II) compound, [Au₂(C₆F₅) ₄(tht)₂] (tht = tetrahydrothiophene), without any stabilizing chelating ligands (see picture; Au orange, S yellow, F green, C black) and to crystallographically characterize the gold(I) and gold(III) complexes participating in this conversion. A unique ligand scrambling of the latter gold(III) compound occurs in solution.