Decarboxylation of aromatic carboxylic acids by gold(I)-N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) complexes

Stéphanie Dupuy; Faïma Lazreg; Alexandra M Z Slawin; Catherine S J Cazin; Steven P Nolan

doi:10.1039/c1cc10917k

Decarboxylation of aromatic carboxylic acids by gold(I)-N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) complexes

Chem Commun (Camb). 2011 May 21;47(19):5455-7. doi: 10.1039/c1cc10917k. Epub 2011 Apr 1.

Authors

Stéphanie Dupuy¹, Faïma Lazreg, Alexandra M Z Slawin, Catherine S J Cazin, Steven P Nolan

Affiliation

¹ EaStCHEM School of Chemistry, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK KY16 9ST.

PMID: 21461411
DOI: 10.1039/c1cc10917k

Abstract

A recently isolated gold(I) complex, [Au(IPr)(OH)], permits the transformation of carboxylic acids to the corresponding decarboxylated gold(I)-aryl complex without the use of silver co-catalyst under mild reaction conditions.