ORGANOGOLD DERIVATIVES IN THE CONDENSED PHASE

Data on these species are even rarer than for the corresponding, valence isoelectronic, silver species. Indeed, the sole relevant enthalpy of formation we can find is that of aqueous 

Au(CN)2- with the value of 285.8 kJ mol-1 from Reference 6. We cannot even find the enthalpy of formation data for AuCN or of AuC12- with which to make comparisons analogous to reaction 9. However reaction 18 is exothermic by 65 kJ mol-1. 

Joel F. Liebman, Jos6 Martinho Simoes and Suzanne W. Slayden 

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