Technical Notes:
1. The gold complex has been used to generate active catalytic species in the hydrophenoxylation of alkynes1,2 (see equation) and can be used to enable related transformations.3,4
References:
1. Beil. J. Org. Chem. 2013, 9, 2002-2008.
2.Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2013, 52, 9767-9770.
3.ACS Catal. 2015, 5, 6918-6921.
4. Adv. Synth. Cat. 2016, 358, 3857 -3862.