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Gold carbene complexes and beyond: new avenues in gold(I)-carbon coordination chemistry

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The different coordination modes in carbon-gold(I) complexes are spotlighted with a focus on gold(I). The emergence of gold carbene complexes and their critical discussion in the community is presented, and an overview of their bonding fundamentals and synthetic procedures is given. Several intriguing and sometimes highly reactive gold-carbon coordination complexes that were recently synthesised and isolated are reviewed and a critical outlook into their potential applications is provided. This includes vinylidene and higher cumulenylidene complexes, free carbenes with gold substituents, carbodicarbene complexes, and non-Fischer/Schrock sesquicarbene complexes.

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Florian F. Mulks is grateful to the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation for a Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship. Proof-reading by Dr. Jan Wenz, Hanna Lee, Seok Yeol Yoo, Yerin Park, Dr. Yangyang Yang, and Patrick W. Antoni is acknowledged. Florian F. Mulks is grateful to the Institute for Basic Science (IBS-R10-A1) in Korea for financial support.

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Mulks, F.F. Gold carbene complexes and beyond: new avenues in gold(I)-carbon coordination chemistry. Gold Bull 55, 1–13 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13404-021-00298-1

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