“Hyt was of Gold, and Shon so Bryghte…”: Luminescent Gold(I) Compounds

✍ Scribed by Priv.-Doz. Dr. Lutz H. Gade

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 311 KB
• Volume: 36
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0044-8249
• DOI: 10.1002/anie.199711711

✦ Synopsis

Imagine isolating a solid compound on a filter frit that upon washing with an organic solvent suddenly displays intense emission of light. Bewilderment was probably the reaction of Jess Vickery in Alan Balch's group, who had prepared the known trimeric organometallic gold Me0 \ /Me , C = N, complex [Au,(CH,N=COCH 3)3] / \