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Royal Society of Chemistry, Chemical Communications, 77(50), p. 11321
DOI: 10.1039/c4cc05910g
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Trapping atmospheric CO2 with gold
Journal article published in 2014 by
Alba Collado,
Adrián Gómez-Suárez,
Paul B. Webb,
Hedi Kruger,
Michael Bühl,
David B. Cordes,
Alexandra M. Z. Slawin 
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Steven P. Nolan
,
Steven P. Nolan
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Abstract
The ability of gold-hydroxides to fix CO2 is reported. [Au(IPr)(OH)] and [{Au(IPr)}2(μ-OH)][BF4] react with atmospheric CO2 to form the trigold carbonate complex [{Au(IPr)}3(μ(3)-CO3)][BF4]. Reactivity studies revealed that this complex behaves as two basic and one cationic Au centres, and that it is catalytically active. DFT calculations and kinetic experiments have been carried out.