Tv. Baukova et al., HYPERCOORDINATED GOLD(I) COMPOUNDS - 4 - SYNTHESIS AND STRUCTURE OF AN ORTHO-DIAURATED 4-TERT-BUTYLBIPHENYL DERIVATIVE, Russian chemical bulletin, 46(12), 1997, pp. 2127-2129
A hypercoordinated 2,2'-diaurated 4-tert-butylbiphenyl derivative, whi
ch contains an intramolecular Au...Au secondary bond, was first synthe
sized by the reaction of 2,2'-dilithio-4-tert-butylbiphenyl with ClAuP
Ph3. The structure of the complex was established by X-ray structural
analysis, H-1 and P-31 NMR spectroscopy, and fast-atom bombardment mas
s spectrometry.