Volume 48, Issue 52 pp. 9892-9895
Communication

Gold–Silane and Gold–Stannane Complexes: Saturated Molecules as σ-Acceptor Ligands

Pauline Gualco

Pauline Gualco

Université de Toulouse, UPS, LHFA, 118 route de Narbonne, 31062 Toulouse (France)

CNRS, LHFA UMR 5069, 31062 Toulouse (France), Fax: (+33) 5-6155-8204

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Tzu-Pin Lin

Tzu-Pin Lin

Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843 (USA)

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Marie Sircoglou Dr.

Marie Sircoglou Dr.

Université de Toulouse, UPS, LHFA, 118 route de Narbonne, 31062 Toulouse (France)

CNRS, LHFA UMR 5069, 31062 Toulouse (France), Fax: (+33) 5-6155-8204

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Maxime Mercy

Maxime Mercy

Université de Toulouse, INSA, UPS, LPCNO, 135 avenue de Rangueil, 31077 Toulouse (France)

CNRS, LPCNO UMR 5215, 31077 Toulouse (France)

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Sonia Ladeira

Sonia Ladeira

Structure Fédérative Toulousaine en Chimie Moléculaire, Toulouse (France)

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Ghenwa Bouhadir Dr.

Ghenwa Bouhadir Dr.

Université de Toulouse, UPS, LHFA, 118 route de Narbonne, 31062 Toulouse (France)

CNRS, LHFA UMR 5069, 31062 Toulouse (France), Fax: (+33) 5-6155-8204

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Lisa M. Pérez Dr.

Lisa M. Pérez Dr.

Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843 (USA)

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Abderrahmane Amgoune Dr.

Abderrahmane Amgoune Dr.

Université de Toulouse, UPS, LHFA, 118 route de Narbonne, 31062 Toulouse (France)

CNRS, LHFA UMR 5069, 31062 Toulouse (France), Fax: (+33) 5-6155-8204

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Laurent Maron Dr.

Laurent Maron Dr.

Université de Toulouse, INSA, UPS, LPCNO, 135 avenue de Rangueil, 31077 Toulouse (France)

CNRS, LPCNO UMR 5215, 31077 Toulouse (France)

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François P. Gabbaï Dr.

François P. Gabbaï Dr.

Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843 (USA)

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Didier Bourissou Dr.

Didier Bourissou Dr.

Université de Toulouse, UPS, LHFA, 118 route de Narbonne, 31062 Toulouse (France)

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First published: 15 December 2009
Citations: 120

Financial support from the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, the Université de Toulouse, the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR-06-BLAN-0034), the National Science Foundation (CHE-0646916), and the Welch Foundation (A-1423) is gratefully acknowledged. We thank: the Unidade de RaiosX of the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela for the X-ray diffraction analyses of 4 and 5; Christopher Cummins (MIT) for useful discussions regarding the use of the Dgrid program; the Laboratory for Molecular Simulation at Texas A&M University for providing software and computation resources. L.M. thanks the Institut Universitaire de France and D.B. thanks the COST action CM0802 PhoSciNet for supporting this work.

Graphical Abstract

Gold gets a grip: Spectroscopic, structural, and computational results provide evidence for unprecedented Au→Si and Au→Sn interactions in gold(I) complexes derived from diphosphino-substituted silane and stannane ligands (see scheme).

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