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title

Characterizations of Gold Complexes and Mechanism of its Usage in π-bond Activation Reactions

author

Zhou, Wentong

abstract

Research on homogeneous gold (I) catalyzed chemistry has made many exciting discoveries during the last few decades. The gold catalysts have been applied in many interesting chemical transformations, especially in π-bond activation reactions to initiate nucleophilic addition. But experimental studies focused on gold heteroatom π-complexes were still limited. It is significant to research on the intermediates involved in gold-catalyzed reactions. Many groups have studied methodology and computational model to prove the reactivity of gold catalysts, but experimental evidences of gold-catalyzed mechanisms are still lacking. Alternatively, “silver effect” is an interesting topic in gold chemistry, which means that silver may be involved in some gold-catalyzed reactions. So we focus on the ligand effect of gold complex and their roles in gold-catalyzed reactions.

subject

catalysis

gold

mechanism

organic chemistry

contributor

Jones, Amanda Cynthia (committee chair)

Bierbach, Ulich (committee member)

Jones, Paul (committee member)

date

2017-01-14T09:35:30Z (accessioned)

2018-01-13T09:30:09Z (available)

2016 (issued)

degree

Chemistry (discipline)

embargo

2018-01-13 (terms)

identifier

http://hdl.handle.net/10339/64192 (uri)

language

en (iso)

publisher

Wake Forest University

type

Thesis