Structural Chemistry of Gold Compounds in the Condensed Phase

3 Structural Chemistry of Gold Compounds in the Condensed Phase 

In recent years, extensive preparative, structural, spectroscopic and theoretical studies, which have been oriented towards a better understanding of relativistic phenomena in the chemistry of gold, have been carried out by the Munich group (Schmidbaur2000). Not only atomic and ionic radii are influenced by relativity, but also the stability of the oxidation states and coordination numbers are heavily affected, with consequences ranging from relatively small to supramolecular ensembles. 

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