title: Fire and ice: a gold(III) monohydride.
abstract: Good as gold: gold hydrides were long considered unstable. In the past few years reports have appeared on not only the stable NHC gold(I) monohydride complex 1 (see structure; NHC=N-heterocyclic carbene) but also a dinuclear gold(I) hydride and most recently the gold(III) monohydride complex 2 with a C-N-C pincer ligand. One can expect new and important impulses for inorganic and organometallic chemistry and homogeneous gold catalysis.
authors.affiliation: Organisch-Chemisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Deutschland. hashmi@hashmi.de
authors.forename: A Stephen K
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Hashmi