"The first book in the PATAI Series was published in 1964 and the Series will celebrate its 50th Anniversary in 2014. This ""Golden Jubilee"" is accompanied by the publication of the first volume on the chemistry of organogold.
In the history of the PATAI Series there was, so far, no volume dedicated to gold alone. In 1999 we published a volume on The Chemistry of Gold and Silver Compounds. Since then a lot of new chemistry using gold has been developed and it is timely to focus a volume on methods and applications of organogold compounds in organic synthesis, reflecting the enormous progress which has been made in the use of gold compounds as reagents and catalysts.
A second area of great importance covered in the book is the use of gold surfaces in the synthesis of peptides, proteins and other natural products. A whole range of applications in the area of biochemistry has resulted from these developments. A third area of interest is the synthesis and engineering of nanostructures, where organogold chemistry has opened the door for a wide range of methods and applications in the field of nanoscience and materials science.
As with all new volumes, the chapters are first published online in Patai's Chemistry of Functional Groups. Once a volume is completed online, it is then published in print format. The printed book offers the traditional quality of the Patai Book Series, complete with an extensive index."
1. Theory of gold-mediated reactions: From single metal site to cluster 1 Hui Chen and Yi Gao 2. Aurocarbons: Binary gold carbides, binary carbon aurides and their derivatives 31 H. Mark Perks and Joel F. Liebman 3. Gas phase chemistry of gold 41 J. Mathias Weber 4. Mass spectrometry of organogold compounds 57 Richard A. J. O’Hair 5. Electrochemical investigations of organogold compounds 107 Jan S. Jaworski 6. Gold-promoted sigmatropic rearrangements 149 Guilhem Henrion and Fabien Gagosz 7. Gold-catalyzed migrations and ring expansions 235 Estibaliz Merino, Luis Fernandez and Cristina Nevado 8. The chemistry of gold–NHC carbene complexes 307 Jun Zhang, Peng Gu, Kai Chen and Min Shi 9. The chemistry of gold fluoride complexes 391 William J. Wolf and F. Dean Toste 10. The chemistry of gold–metal bonds 409 Cristian Silvestru and Antonio Laguna 11. Synthesis and reactivity of gold–olefin complexes 527 Chandrakanta Dash and H. V. Rasika Dias 12. The chemistry of gold–allene complexes 567 María Paz Muñoz and César Hurtado-Rodrigo 13. Gold-catalyzed reactions of cyclopropenes 631 Alexis Archambeau, Frederic Miege, Janine Cossy and Christophe Meyer 14. Gold-catalyzed and gold-mediated synthesis of heterocycles 701 Mie Højer Vilhelmsen and A. Stephen K. Hashmi 15. Gold-catalyzed benzannulations 753 Balaram S. Takale, Ming Bao and Yoshinori Yamamoto 16. Gold-catalyzed hydroarylation of alkynes 805 Michael E. Muratore and Antonio M. Echavarren 17. Gold-catalyzed addition of HX to alkynes 901 Emilie Genin and Veronique Michelet 18. Catalysis of organic transformations by gold nanoparticles supported on metal oxides 961 Manolis Stratakis and Hermenegildo Garcia Subject index 1019
Professor Zvi Rappoport, Institute of Chemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel. Professor Ilan Marek, Department of Chemistry, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel. Professor Joel F. Liebman, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Maryland (UMBC), Baltimore, USA.
