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Chem Commun (Camb). 2012 Feb 14;48(14):1970-2. doi: 10.1039/c2cc15291f. Epub 2012 Jan 11.

White phosphorus as a ligand for the coinage metals.

Chemical communications (Cambridge, England)

Laura C Forfar, Timothy J Clark, Michael Green, Stephen M Mansell, Christopher A Russell, Rajashekharayya A Sanguramath, John M Slattery

Affiliations

  1. School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 1TS, UK.

PMID: 22234580 DOI: 10.1039/c2cc15291f

Abstract

Reaction of equimolar quantities of MX (M = Au, Cu, X = Cl; M = Ag, X = OTf) and GaCl(3) in CH(2)Cl(2) with P(4) leads to phosphorus ligating a cationic coinage metal centre. For Cu and Ag, ion-contacted coordination polymers are formed; for Au, an ion-separated complex is observed that features the [Au(η(2)-P(4))(2)](+) cation, which is the first homoleptic Au-P(4) complex to be characterised in the condensed phase.

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