Inorganic and Organometallic Gold Compounds

For gold compounds in the high oxidation state (e.g., AuCU , AuFe , AuFs etc.,) we And rather small bond contractions as the electronegative ligands reduce the 6s 

Another interesting example of aurophilic interactions influencing electronic excited state properties is the unusual photochemical cis to trans conversion observed in dinudear goldhalide bis(diphenylphosphino)ethylene complexes, Au2X2(dppee) 

It has been speculated in the past that it might be possible to isolate the first Au(I) fluoride LAuF [182], if disproportionation into metallic gold and Au( 111) can be avoided by stabilizing ligands L, such as (PR3)3AuF [264]. This has just been achieved. Laitar et al. [185] were able to isolate a compound with an N-heterocyclic carbene ligand 

ForAu(CN)2 the dissociation energy is defined asAu(CN)2 - AuCN + CN. A scalar relativistic  

Stuttgart pseudopotential for Au with a uncontracted (lls/10p/7d/5f) valence basis set and a Dunning augmented correlation consistent valence triple-zeta sets (aug-cc-pVTZ) for both C and N, but with the most diffuse f function removed, was used. 

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