January 1, 1980Journal of the Chemical Society Chemical Communications

Is regular tetrahedral geometry possible in gold(I)–phosphine complexes? X-Ray crystal structures of three modifications of (PPh 3 ) 4 Au + BPh 4 –

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Abstract

X-Ray crystal structures of three modifications of tetrakis(triphenylphosphine)gold(I) tetraphenylborate have been determined, one at –150 °C; none shows the expected simple tetrahedral geometry.

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Peter G. Jones (1980) studied this question.

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X-Ray crystal structures of three modifications of tetrakis(triphenylphosphine)gold(I) tetraphenylborate have been determined, one at –150 °C; none shows the expected simple tetrahedral geometry.