This review considers phosphine and N-heterocyclic carbene complexes of gold (I) that are
used as (pre) catalysts for a range of reactions in organic synthesis. These are divided …

For centuries, gold had been considered a precious, purely decorative inert metal. It was not
until 1986 that Ito and Hayashi described the first application of gold (I) in homogeneous …

This Review examines recent developments in late transition metal-catalyzed
hydroamination and-amidation reactions. A hydroamination is a reaction in which an N− H …

For the past dozen years, homogeneous gold catalysis has evolved from a little known topic
in organic synthesis to a fully blown research field of significant importance to synthetic …

1. INTRODUCTION Bulk gold, being the most stable among all metals, was for many years
considered as an inert catalyst. However, gold particles with size on the scale of nanometers …

For a while, the reactivity of gold complexes was largely dominated by their Lewis acid
behavior. In contrast to the other transition metals, the elementary steps of organometallic …

The reluctance of gold to achieve oxidative addition reaction is considered as an intrinsic
limitation for the development of gold-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions with simple and …

Gold catalysis is considered one of the most important breakthroughs in organic synthesis
during the past decade, but a rational understanding of ligand effects in gold catalysis is …

An efficient method for chemoselective cysteine arylation of unprotected peptides and
proteins using Au (III) organometallic complexes is reported. The bioconjugation reactions …

The development of selective reactions that utilize easily available and abundant precursors
for the efficient synthesis of amines is a long-standing goal of chemical research. Despite the …