Convincing and consistent evidence for the existence of hydrogen bonding to gold has been obtained. An ammonium or pyridinium group has been shown to be an efficient hydrogen bond donor unit for gold(I) coordination centers, and the assembly leads to the structural pattern typical for standard hydrogen bonds. This constitutes the first rigorous, scrutinizing, and comprehensive study of hydrogen bonds to a metal atom, with gold being an ideal model element because of relativistic effects.
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