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Gold-sulfur chemistry.
- Gold is the most electronegative metal of all[1]
- Gold is 2.4 on the Pauling scale
- Compare that with 2.4 for selenium and 2.5 for sulfur and iodine
- Gold is the only metal that will not react directly with sulfur![2]
- Hydrogen sulfide reacts with aqueous gold(I) to form a precipitate of gold(I) sulfide, Au2S.[3]
- H2S reacts with cold solutions of AuCl3 in dry Et2O to form gold(III) sulfide, Au2S3.[3]
- Au2S3 + H2O → Au(I) or Au(0) (fast reaction)
- Au(I) is a soft Lewis acid, preferring P, As and S donor atoms in its complexes[4]
See also[edit]
- Gold-sulfur bond
- Gold
- Sulfur
- Gold chalcogenides
- Aurophilicity
- Chloro(dimethyl sulfide)gold(I)
- Chloro(tetrahydrothiophene)gold(I)
- Gold salts
References[edit]
- ^ Greenwood, Norman N.; Earnshaw, Alan (1997). Chemistry of the Elements (2nd ed.). Butterworth-Heinemann. p. 1176. ISBN 978-0-08-037941-8.
- ^ Greenwood, Norman N.; Earnshaw, Alan (1997). Chemistry of the Elements (2nd ed.). Butterworth-Heinemann. p. 1179. ISBN 978-0-08-037941-8.
- ^ a b Greenwood, Norman N.; Earnshaw, Alan (1997). Chemistry of the Elements (2nd ed.). Butterworth-Heinemann. p. 1181. ISBN 978-0-08-037941-8.
- ^ Greenwood, Norman N.; Earnshaw, Alan (1997). Chemistry of the Elements (2nd ed.). Butterworth-Heinemann. p. 1196. ISBN 978-0-08-037941-8.