For centuries, gold had been considered a precious, purely decorative inert metal. It was not
until 1986 that Ito and Hayashi described the first application of gold (I) in homogeneous …

N-Heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs) are cyclic carbenes bearing at least one R-amino
substituent. 1 The most common subclasses of NHCs are represented in Chart 1. Early work …

Catalysis by gold has rapidly become a hot topic in chemistry, with a new discovery being
made almost every week. Gold is equally effective as a heterogeneous or a homogeneous …

Gold has accompanied mankind from the very early days; no name of a chemist is
associated with the discovery of the element gold. It is probably the only chemical element …

The ability of platinum and gold catalysts to effect powerful atom‐economic transformations
has led to a marked increase in their utilization. The quite remarkable correlation of their …

Despite the ubiquity of metallic gold (Au) in popular culture, its deployment in homogeneous
catalysis has only recently undergone widespread investigation. In the past decade, and …

Transition-metal catalysts containing gold present new opportunities for chemical synthesis,
and it is therefore not surprising that these complexes are beginning to capture the attention …

Gold salts and complexes have emerged in the past few years as the most powerful
catalysts for electrophilic activation of alkynes toward a variety of nucleophiles under …

Thanks to its unusual stability, metallic gold has been used for thousands of years in jewelry,
currency, chinaware, and so forth. However, gold had not become the chemists'“precious …

Complex molecular architectures containing cyclopropanes present significant challenges
for any synthetic chemist. This review aims to highlight the strategic considerations for …