%0 Journal Article
%T Chiral N-heterocyclic Carbene Gold Complexes: Synthesis and Applications in Catalysis
%J Catalysts | An Open Access Journal from MDPI
%D 2019
%R https://doi.org/10.3390/catal9110890
%X N-Heterocyclic carbenes have found many applications in modern metal catalysis, due to the formation of stable metal complexes, and organocatalysis. Among a myriad of N-heterocyclic carbene metal complexes, gold complexes have gained a lot of attention due to their unique propensity for the activation of carbon-carbon multiple bonds, allowing many useful transformations of alkynes, allenes, and alkenes, inaccessible by other metal complexes. The present review summarizes synthetic efforts towards the preparation of chiral N-heterocyclic gold(I) complexes exhibiting C 2 and C 1 symmetry, as well as their applications in enantioselective catalysis. Finally, the emerging area of rare gold(III) complexes and their preliminary usage in asymmetric catalysis is also presented. View Full-Tex
%U https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4344/9/11/890