Green-Light-Driven Reductive Elimination of Chlorine from a Carbene-Xanthylium Gold(III) Complex.
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With the discovery of late transition metal platforms that support clean photoreductive halogen eliminations, we now describe an indazol-3-ylidene gold trichloride complex ([7]+ ) decorated at the 4-position by a xanthylium unit. This orange complex features a low energy band in the visible part of the spectrum, assigned to the charge transfer excitation of the indazol-3-ylidene/xanthylium donor/acceptor dyad. Green-light irradiation of this complex in the presence of a chlorine trap elicits the clean photoelimination of chlorine radicals, producing the corresponding gold(I) complex. This visible-light-induced photoreduction is very efficient, reaching quantum yields close to 10%. A neutral analog of [7]+ featuring an anthryl group rather than a xanthylium unit proved to be perfectly photostable, supporting the importance of the xanthylium-based photoredox unit present in [7]+ .