Facile oxidative addition of aryl iodides to Gold(I) by ligand design: Bending turns on reactivity

M. Joost (1) , A. Zeineddine , L. Estévez , Sonia Mallet-Ladeira , Karinne Miqueu (2) , A. Amgoune (1) , D. Bourissou (1)

1 LHFA - Laboratoire Hétérochimie Fondamentale et Appliquée
2 IPREM - Institut des sciences analytiques et de physico-chimie pour l'environnement et les materiaux

Thanks to rational ligand design, the first gold(I) complexes to undergo oxidative addition of aryl iodides were discovered. The reaction proceeds under mild conditions and is general. The ensuing aryl gold(III) complexes have been characterized by spectroscopic and crystallographic means. DFT calculations indicate that the bending induced by the diphosphine ligand plays a key role in this process. © 2014 American Chemical Society.

Domaines: Chimie

M. Joost, A. Zeineddine, L. Estévez, Sonia Mallet-Ladeira, Karinne Miqueu, et al.. Facile oxidative addition of aryl iodides to Gold(I) by ligand design: Bending turns on reactivity. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2014, 136 (42), pp.14654--14657. ⟨10.1021/ja506978c⟩. ⟨hal-01505909⟩