The uses of the sulfur-gold bond in the design of new molecular clusters have gained increasing attention in recent years. Their size and shape are diverse providing a wide variety of optical and electronic properties. ...

The coexistence of gold-gold contacts and hydrogen bonding is studied in the model system [H2P(OH)AuCl]2 and [H2P(OH)AuPH2(O)]2. The two interactions are found to be comparable. The possible non-additivity of the aurophilic, ...

We studied the attraction between Au and Tl in the [AuCl(PH3)2]Tl+ complex using ab initio methodology. This is a hypothetical compound. We found that the changes around the Au-Tl equilibrium distance and in the interaction ...

The uses of the sulfur-gold bond in the design of new molecular clusters have gained increasing attention in recent years. Their size and shape are diverse providing a wide variety of optical and electronic properties. ...

Gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) have been extensively used in biological applications because of their biocompatibility, size, and ease of characterization, as well as an extensive knowledge of their surface chemistry. These ...

The interaction of thiol and thiolate containing molecules with gold (S-Au) has gained increasing interest because of its applications in molecular electronic devices and catalysis. In this context, the enhanced conductivity ...

Characterization of the tetrahedral Au20 structure in the gas phase remains a major landmark in gold cluster chemistry, where further efforts to stabilize this bare 20-electron superatom in solution to extend and understand ...