When gold can do what iodine cannot do: A critical comparison

• Sara Hummel and
• Stefan F. Kirsch

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2011, 7, 847–859, doi:10.3762/bjoc.7.97

• led to numerous elegant contributions in both heterocycle and carbocycle syntheses [14][15][16][17][18][19][20]. In general, these processes are easy to perform under simple reaction conditions: Significant redox chemistry is not involved. Since gold complexes show outstanding functional group

Structure and reactivity in neutral organic electron donors derived from 4-dimethylaminopyridine

• Jean Garnier,
• Alan R. Kennedy,
• Leonard E. A. Berlouis,
• Andrew T. Turner and
• John A. Murphy

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2010, 6, No. 73, doi:10.3762/bjoc.6.73

• the disalts. All of the cyclic voltammograms showed reversible redox chemistry, featuring the transfer of two electrons, as indicated by calibration with ferrocene/ferrocenium (Fc/Fc+). Restricting the bridge length to two carbons made donor 14 a less effective reducing agent (Figure 3) compared to 8

Synthesis and redox behavior of new ferrocene- π-extended- dithiafulvalenes: An approach for anticipated organic conductors

• Abdelwareth A. O. Sarhan,
• Omar F. Mohammed and
• Taeko Izumi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2009, 5, No. 6, doi:10.3762/bjoc.5.6

• multicomponent electron donor systems by the Wittig–Horner reaction of the respective phosphonate ester 6 with different ferreocenylketones using the modifications introduced onto the reaction. The redox chemistry of the ferreocenylketones and these new π-conjugated hybrids 8, 10 and 11 has been studied using