“…To obtain the anticipated products, different R 3 PAuCl species are needed, whereby synthetic procedures are well known for (PhO) 3 PAuCl (2 PhO ), [17] (MeO) 3 PAuCl (2 MeO ), [18] and Et 3 PAuCl (2 Et ). With this in mind, different alterations of the compounds R 3 PAuCl and R 3 PAuSR′ [R = OPh, OMe, Et, nPr; R′ = C(SiMe 3 ) 3 , Si(SiMe 3 ) 3 ] were synthesized as described in the following, leading to a handful of yet unknown compounds that may be used as starting compounds for further reduction studies.…”