Gold complexes sulfur donor ligands

Another important class of bidentate ligands in gold chemistry are those composed of sulfur donor ligands such as dithiocarbamates, dithiolates, dithiocarboxylates, dithiophosphinates, dithiophosphates, and so on. The complexes prepared with these ligands are generally of the type Au2(p.-SS)(PR3)2]"+ or Au2(p-SS)(p-PP)] [153-155], [Au2(p-SS)2f [156, 157] or Au3( i-SS)2(PPh3)2 [158]. All these... 

Cyclometallated gold(III) dihalide complexes also act as useful precursors for the synthesis of gold(III) complexes with thiolate and other sulfur donor ligands. The cyclometallated ligand stabilises the gold(III) centre towards reduction, which is important due to the reducing potential of sulfur-based ligands. 

A dinuclear selenide complex anion [Au2(M-Se)2(Se4)2] is the product of the reaction" between [AuCN] and Na2 Ses. Square-planar gold(IIl) complexes are readily formed by a variety of bidentate sulfur-donor ligands such as toluene-1,2-dithiolate, maleonitriledithiolate, and dithiocarbamate. On oxidation with CI2 or Br2, [ Au(S2CNR)2 2] forms Au -Au complexes, which may be oxidized further to an Au complex. 

COMPLEXES OF GOLD(I) WITH SULFUR AND SELENIUM DONOR LIGANDS 872... 

COMPLEXES OF GOLD(IH) WITH SULFUR, SELENIUM AND TELLURIUM DONOR LIGANDS... 

Schroder, D., Schwarz, H., Hrusak, J. and Pyykkd, P. (1998) Cationic gold(l) complexes of xenon and of ligands containing the donor atoms oxygen, nitrogen, phosphorus, and sulfur. Inorganic Chemistry, 37, 624—632. 

Fig. 8. Molecular structure of the gold-sulfur-silver-bromine core of the cationic complex 226. Only the N- and C-donor atoms of the cycloaurated damp ligands are shown.

Large numbers of gold(I) complexes are reported in the literature, most involving ligands with the donor atoms phosphorus, arsenic, and sulfur. In preparing such... 

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