N-heterocyclic carbene stabilized phosphaalkenyl(chloro)stannylene

Dalton Trans. 2014 Feb 21;43(7):2718-21. doi: 10.1039/c3dt53333f.

Abstract

The new phosphaalkenyl(chloro)tin(II) compound NHC-Sn(Cl)[C(SiMe3)=PMes*] was isolated and fully characterized including molecular structure determination by a single crystal X-ray diffraction analysis. Its reaction with Me2SAuCl led to the formation of an unprecedented P=C-bridged trinuclear gold complex [AuC(SiMe3)=PMes*]3 through the transfer of the phosphaalkenyl substituent to the gold atom.