Simple synthetic access to [Au(IBiox)Cl] complexes

Abstract

A sustainable access to chiral and achiral gold-IBiox complexes is reported. The gold complexes were synthesized using a simple, air-tolerant, weak base protocol carried out in a green solvent. The...

%VBur index and steric maps: from predictive catalysis to machine learning

“…In summary, it is about describing how the size of a ligand affects, that is, how it is arranged in space. Most of the papers are related to NHC ligands, and in particular ligated to ruthenium, 206,231 copper, 232,233 gold, 234 and palladium, 178,235 but actually, the most important actor is the ligand itself, 24,236 and the metal simply can tune a bit its flexibility. There is a tendency to think that the rule that the more sterically a ligand is, the worse is the resulting catalysis.…”