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Phenol synthesis using a homogeneous gold catalyst serves as an example of the tremendous progress in homogeneous catalysis by gold which has been made in the past few years. Various aspects of this reaction, including catalyst selectivity and activity and the simple conditions used are described; and the mechanism is discussed in this context.
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A. Stephen K. Hashmi is professor of organic chemistry at the Universität Stuttgart. He carried out his Diploma and PhD research with Professor G. Szeimies at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in the field of strained organic compounds such as allenes, bicyclobutanes and propellanes. His postdoctorate research with Professor B. M. Trost at Stanford University, California, covered transition metal catalysed reactions involving enyne metathesis. His Habilitation with Prof. J. Mulzer at the Freie Universität Berlin, the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt and the Universität Wien, Austria, as well as visits at the University of Tasmania, Australia, and the Universität Marburg focused on both stoichiometric organometallic chemistry and transition metal catalysed organic reactions. Today, homogeneous gold-catalysed organic reactions are the major topic in the group at Universität Stuttgart.
M. C. Blanco obtained her PhD in Logrono, Spain, and joined the group for two years as a postdoc in the AURICAT RTN of the European Union. She has now returned to Spain with a Juan de la Cierva fellowship, in Zaragoza she is still working on gold with Prof. A. Laguna.W. Frey is a specialist in X-ray crystallography at Stuttgart University.J. W. Bats holds a similar position at Frankfurt University, both have determined numerous structures for the group.
F. Ata, M. Hamzic, M. Rudolph, R. Salathé, S. Schäfer andM. Wölfle are PhD students in the group who all studied in Stuttgart. S. Schäfer has spent six months at Zaragoza University as an Erasmus exchange student.
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Stephen, A., Hashmi, K., Ata, F. et al. Gold catalysis: News from the homogeneous wing. Gold Bull 40, 31–35 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03215289
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