title: Facile oxidative addition of aryl iodides to gold(I) by ligand design: bending turns on reactivity.
abstract: Thanks to rational ligand design, the first gold(I) complexes to undergo oxidative addition of aryl iodides were discovered. The reaction proceeds under mild conditions and is general. The ensuing aryl gold(III) complexes have been characterized by spectroscopic and crystallographic means. DFT calculations indicate that the bending induced by the diphosphine ligand plays a key role in this process.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire Hétérochimie Fondamentale et Appliquée, Université Paul Sabatier/CNRS UMR 5069 , 118 Route de Narbonne, 31062 Toulouse, Cedex 09, France.
authors.forename: Maximilian
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Joost
authors.forename: Abdallah
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Zeineddine
authors.forename: Laura
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Estévez
authors.forename: Sonia
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Mallet-Ladeira
authors.forename: Karinne
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Miqueu
authors.forename: Abderrahmane
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Amgoune
authors.forename: Didier
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Bourissou