Cover Picture: Dual Gold-Catalyzed Cycloaromatization of Unconjugated (E)-Enediynes (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 7/2019)
Graphical Abstract
Dual gold activation is an important catalytic mode in homogeneous catalysis. In their Communication on page 2114 ff., S. G. Pyne, C. J. T. Hyland, and co-workers report that (E)-enediynes undergo a dual gold-catalyzed cycloaromatization towards isoindolinones. They use electronic differentiation of triple bonds to direct the formation of a propiolic gold acetylide, represented as a gold-coveting dragon, which then reacts with a π-coordinated enyne moiety, illustrated by Rumpelstilzchen spinning his golden thread.
Dual gold activation is an important catalytic mode in homogeneous catalysis. In their Communication on page 2114 ff., S. G. Pyne, C. J. T. Hyland, and co-workers report that (E)-enediynes undergo a dual gold-catalyzed cycloaromatization towards isoindolinones. They use electronic differentiation of triple bonds to direct the formation of a propiolic gold acetylide, represented as a gold-coveting dragon, which then reacts with a π-coordinated enyne moiety, illustrated by Rumpelstilzchen spinning his golden thread.
Radiochemistry
Decorated Carbon Networks
Photocatalysis
