Aurophilicity under pressure: a combined crystallographic and in-situ spectroscopic study

High pressure crystallographic studies on [1,4 C6H4{PPh2(AuCl)}2] (1) reveal the largest pressure-induced contraction of an aurophilic interaction observed for any Au(I) complex; Hirshfeld surface analysis and Raman spectroscopy reveal the presence of several types of intermolecular interaction, whi...

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Main Authors: O'Connor, Alice E., Mirzadeh, Nedaossadat, Bhargava, Suresh, Easun, Timothy L., Schröder, Martin, Blake, Alexander J.
Format: Article
Published: Royal Society of Chemistry 2016
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/35540/
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Summary:High pressure crystallographic studies on [1,4 C6H4{PPh2(AuCl)}2] (1) reveal the largest pressure-induced contraction of an aurophilic interaction observed for any Au(I) complex; Hirshfeld surface analysis and Raman spectroscopy reveal the presence of several types of intermolecular interaction, which play an important role in the behaviour of 1 as a function of pressure.