Gold catalysis 2.0

Abstract

The concept of dual activation by gold has provided entirely new perspectives in the field. New organometallic intermediates have been characterized, new and unusual mechanisms have been investigated (both experimentally and by computational chemistry), and interesting new reactions have been developed. In the meantime, in the current literature, the concept of dual activation by gold catalysts has attracted sufficient attention that researchers now are starting to run experiments specifically to exclude dual activation mechanisms for some of the reactions they investigate,22,23 and in synthesis first applications, which nicely demonstrate and expand the scope of the dual activation principle in gold catalysis, are being published. © 2013 American Chemical Society.