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