Aurophilic interactions as a subject of current research: an up-date

• Published in: Chemical Society reviews Vol. 41; no. 1; pp. 37 - 412
• Main Authors: Schmidbaur, Hubert, Schier, Annette
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England 01.01.2012
• Subjects: Bonding; Construction; Crystal structure; Gold; Gold compounds; Mathematical analysis; Physical properties; surveys

Recently accumulated experimental evidence for aurophilic interactions in and between molecular gold( i ) compounds and the results of pertinent theoretical calculations are reviewed for the period from 2007 to mid-2011. The influence of the intra- and intermolecular bonding contacts between the clo...