Pyramidal gold complexes

Treatment of 77 with one equivalent of [AuCl(tht)] (tht = tetrahydrothiophene) leads to the type III AuCl bridged pincer complex 79 in high yield (counterion is Cl ) [149]. The unique complex 79 is the only heterodimetallic compound with two metal atoms attached at a carbodiphosphorane carbon(O) atom. The environment at the central carbon atom is planar in 77 and pyramidal in 78 and 79. P-C bond lengths and P-C-P angles in the dication 78 are closely related to those in the neutral Pt complex 36 (Fig. 25). The two metals of 79 attached to the carbon atom are coimected via a very short d -d ° pseudo closed shell interaction with a Pd-Au bond length of 2.8900(3) A a similar bonding situation (aurophilic attraction) is found in the gold complex 29 shown in Fig. 23. 

Moreover, low temperature NMR spectra indicate a pyramidal structure of the carbanion in triphenylphosphonium cyclopropylid 6, and an X-ray diffraction analysis of the crystalline solid confirms this result (14). Contrary to earlier predictions, cyclo-propylids are thus found to be the first class of ylids to contain non-planar carbanions with an unusual ylidic bonding (Fig.2). They form stable metal complexes, as illustrated by a gold complex (7) +... 

Hogeveen and Kwant" " and has a pyramidal structure (see Section 5.6.2). According to calculations carried out for CLie (24), an octahedral structure is preferred. Furthermore, similar to the five-coordinate CH5 analog gold complexes, Schmidbaur et have also prepared and character-... 

With a tridentate ligand Au(terpy)Cl3.H20 has, in fact, AuCl(terpy)2"1" with weakly coordinated chloride and water while Au(terpy)Br(CN)2 has square pyramidal gold(III) the terpyridyl ligand is bidentate, occupying the axial and one basal position [124]. Macrocyclic complexes include the porphyrin complex Au(TPP)Cl (section 4.12.5) cyclam-type macrocyclic ligands have a very high affinity for gold(III) [125],... 

The treatment of gold(III) complexes with the rigid bidentate ligand phen allows the synthesis of pseudo-pentacoordinate gold(III) derivatives. This is the case of [Au(dmp)(phen)PPh3](BF4)2 (288) (dmp = 2-(dimethylaminomethyl)phenyl)1699 or [AuCl(C4Ph4)(phen)].16 2 The donor atoms of the phenanthroline ligand occupy one equatorial and the axial position of a square pyramid with distances 2.154(8)A and 2.627(10)A in (288). 

The formation of five-coordinate gold(III) has been demonstrated clearly in the complexes of 2,9-dimethyl-l,10-phenanthroline and 2,2 -biquinoline, which have the distorted square pyramidal structures (91) and (92). However, the structures of the ligands prevent square planar coordination, so that these examples are atypical.613-615 However, a related organometallic derivative, [AuCl(C4Ph4)(phen)], is known and has a similar distorted square pyramidal structure.616... 

There are several porphyrin derivatives of gold(III) such as the tetraphenyl-porphyrinatogold(III) cation, [Au(TPP)]+ (95), which forms a square pyramidal complex [AuC TPP)] with chloride.620- 2 Reduction of the latter complex gives the phlorin derivative... 

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