Bis(2,6-dimethyl-phenyl isocyanide-κC)gold(I) tetra-fluorido-borate

Timi P Singa; Antonio G Dipasquale; Arnold L Rheingold; Clifford P Kubiak

doi:10.1107/S1600536808027116

Bis(2,6-dimethyl-phenyl isocyanide-κC)gold(I) tetra-fluorido-borate

Acta Crystallogr Sect E Struct Rep Online. 2008 Sep 6;64(Pt 10):m1221. doi: 10.1107/S1600536808027116.

Authors

Timi P Singa¹, Antonio G Dipasquale, Arnold L Rheingold, Clifford P Kubiak

Affiliation

¹ University of California in San Diego, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, California 92093-0358, USA.

Abstract

In the title compound, [Au(C(9)H(9)N)(2)]BF(4), the Au(I) cation adopts an almost linear AuC(2) geometry. The cation is bowed due to crystal packing effects, and the dihedral angle between the xylyl rings is 52.3 (7)°.