Rationale for the sluggish oxidative addition of aryl halides to Au(I).

ABSTRACT: The oxidative addition of Csp(2)-Br or Csp(2)-I bonds to gold(I) does not take place even under very favorable intramolecular conditions that could form five- or six-membered gold(III) metallacycles. DFT calculations reveal that although this process could be feasible thermodynamically, it is kinetically very sluggish.

SUBMITTER: Livendahl M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4295554 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature