The structure of AuCl.PCl₃

So far no members of the group of coordination compounds in which PCl 3 acts as a donor molecule have been investigated crystallographically, although many such compounds are known to exist. We have studied the structure of a relatively simple representative of this group, AuCl·PCl 3 . Univalent gold is always found to have a linear coordination, even when the analogous copper and silver complexes show a tetrahedral coordination of the metal...