Hg. Raubenheimer et al., PREPARATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF THE FIRST ISOTHIAZOLYL AND ISOTHIAZOLINYLIDENE COMPLEXES OF GOLD(I), Journal of the Chemical Society. Dalton transactions, (12), 1995, pp. 2067-2071
Isothiazolyl complexes have been synthesized by the addition of isothi
azol-5-yllithium to gold(I) chloride or tetrahydrothiophene(pentafluor
ophenyl)gold complexes. Protonation or alkylation of these isothiazoly
l complexes yielded the corresponding isothiazolinylidene complexes. T
he mono(isothiazolyl)aurate and mono(isothiazolinylidene) complexes un
dergo homoleptic rearrangement. The molecular structure of the mono(is
othiazolyl) complex [Au(C=CHCH=NS)(PPh(3))] shows a gold-carbon bond l
ength of 2.032(7) Angstrom.