A dicoordinate gold(I)-ethylene complex.

Miquel NavarroJuan Miranda-PizarroJuan J MorenoCarlos Navarro-GilabertIsrael Fernández Jesús Campos

Published in: Chemical communications (Cambridge, England) (2021)

The use of the exceptionally bulky tris-2-(4,4'-di-tert-butylbiphenylyl)phosphine ligand allows the isolation and complete characterization of the first dicoordinate gold(I)-ethylene adduct, filling a missing fundamental piece on the organometallic chemistry of gold. Besides, the bonding situation of this species has been investigated by means of state-of-the-art Density Functional Theory (DFT) calculations indicating that π-backdonation plays a minor role compared with tricoordinate analogues.

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