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Bridge-to-vertex Oxidative Slipping in an Auraborane: Synthesis and Characterisation of 2- and -
Wynd, Andrew J.,Welch, Alan J.
, p. 1174 - 1176 (2007/10/02)
The new auraboranes 2- and - have been synthesised by the addition of B10H14 to a solution of R3PAuMe (R = cyclo-C6H11 or C6H4Me-2), a crystallographic study showing that the geometry of the fragment of the former is that of an arachno fragment of a 13-vertex docosahedron; a mechanism is proposed which involves formal oxidative slipping of a gold atom from a B-Au-B bridge to a polyhedral vertex.