Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol.132, No.13, 4572-4572, 2010
Self-Assembly of Molecular Cylinders from Polycarbene Ligands and Ag-I or Au-I
Tris- and tetrakis(imidazolium) salts react with Ag2O to give cylindrical polynuclear silver(I) complexes such as the tetrasilver derivative [Ag-4(1)(2)](PF6)(4). The silver(I) complexes undergo transmetalation with [AuCl(SMe2)] to yield homonuclear gold(I) complexes with retention of the metallosupramolecular assembly.