Organo-gold(III) complexes via mechanochemistry in a ball mill

Owing to their highly interesting applications in medicine, catalysis, and their luminescence properties, over the past decade, increasing efforts have been devoted to the synthesis of organo-gold(III) complexes. Therefore, the design of mild, practical, and modular protocols for their synthesis is a highly active field of research. In a recent paper in Angewandte Chemie, Hashmi and co-workers developed an efficient and solvent-free method for the mechanochemical synthesis of differently organo-gold(III) complexes; this method opens up a new perspective for the field.