Royal Society of Chemistry, Dalton Transactions, 16(43), p. 5978, 2014
DOI: 10.1039/c3dt53579g
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The reaction of gold nanoparticles with benzimididazol-2-ylidene ligands leads to the formation of well-defined bis-carbene gold(I) complexes, as shown by characterization techniques such as powder XRD and solid state NMR.