Abstract
Geminally diaurated μ2 -aryl complexes have been prepared where gold(I) centers were bridged by the semirigid diphosphine ligands bis(2-diphenylphosphinophenyl)ether (DPEphos) and 4,6-bis(diphenylphosphanyl)dibenzo[b,d]furan (DBFphos). Diaurated complexes were synthesized in ligand redistribution reactions of the corresponding di-gold dichlorides with di-gold diaryls (six of them new) and silver(I) salts. Diaurated complexes were isolated as salts of the minimally coordinating anions SbF6 (-) and ReO4 (-). Efforts to prepare salts of the tetraarylborate [B(3,5-(CF3)2 C6 H3)4](-) led to transmetalation from boron, with crystallization of the fluorinated aryl complex. The new complexes were characterized by multinuclear NMR, absorption and emission spectroscopies, 77 K emission lifetimes, and by combustion analysis; three are crystallographically characterized. Structures of geminally diaurated aryl ligands are compared to those of mono-aurated analogues. Both crystal structures and density-functional theory calculations indicate slight but observable disruptions of aryl ligand aromaticity by geminal di-gold binding. An intermolecular aurophilic interaction in one structurally authenticated complex was examined computationally.
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