Changing the gold standard

Changing the gold standard

Changing the gold standard, Published online: 21 February 2019; doi:10.1038/s41557-019-0223-z

Gold — long presumed to be an inert metal — has been increasingly shaking this image over the past couple of decades, mostly through electrophilic behaviour. Now, a two-coordinate gold complex has been shown to exhibit nucleophilic reactivity, with the insertion of CO2 into its polarized Auδ−–Alδ+ bond.

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