10539-10-3Relevant articles and documents
Gold(I) Carbenoids: On-Demand Access to Gold(I) Carbenes in Solution
Sarria Toro, Juan M.,García-Morales, Cristina,Raducan, Mihai,Smirnova, Ekaterina S.,Echavarren, Antonio M.
, p. 1859 - 1863 (2017)
Chloromethylgold(I) complexes of phosphine, phosphite, and N-heterocyclic carbene ligands are easily synthesized by reaction of trimethylsilyldiazomethane with the corresponding gold chloride precursors. Activation of these gold(I) carbenoids with a variety of chloride scavengers promotes reactivity typical of metallocarbenes in solution, namely homocoupling to ethylene, olefin cyclopropanation, and Buchner ring expansion of benzene.
Cyclopropanation with gold(I) carbenes by retro-Buchner reaction from cycloheptatrienes
Solorio-Alvarado, César R.,Wang, Yahui,Echavarren, Antonio M.
, p. 11952 - 11955 (2011/10/04)
Cationic gold(I) promotes the retro-Buchner reaction of 7-substituted 1,3,5-cycloheptatrienes, leading to gold(I) carbenes that cyclopropanate alkenes.