![]() If you are an author contributing to an RSC publication, you do not need to request permission Please go to the Copyright Clearance Center request page. To request permission to reproduce material from this article in a commercial publication, Provided that the correct acknowledgement is given and it is not used for commercial purposes. This article in other publications, without requesting further permission from the RSC, Friščić,Ĭreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence. Rapid, room-temperature, solvent-free mechanochemical oxidation of elemental gold into organosoluble gold salts Besides enabling direct extraction of gold into an organic solvent, the mechanochemically obtained organosoluble gold salts can also be readily used for further syntheses, as shown here by a two-step one-pot route to prepare air- and moisture-resistant Au( I) salts, and an improved synthesis of gold nanoparticles from bulk gold. The organosoluble gold salts are easily separated from sulfate byproducts by direct extraction into the benign solvent ethyl acetate, which is also easily recycled for re-use, providing a strategy for gold activation and dissolution without any additional reagents for purification, such as cation exchange resins, salts, or chelating agents. The methodology is based on solventless, mechanochemical oxidation of metallic gold with Oxone® in the presence of tetraalkylammonium halide salts, to directly, rapidly (within 30–60 minutes) and at room temperature convert gold metal into solid salts that are immediately soluble in pure organic solvents and aqueous alcoholic media. Here, we describe a methodology that simultaneously avoids aggressive reagents and enables gold extraction into a safe organic solvent. As a result, development of safer, cleaner processes that would enable gold processing in non-aqueous, organic solvent is an attractive technological goal. Gold is highly valued for a wide range of commercial and technological applications but is processed exclusively through highly aggressive and toxic solvents and/or reagents, ultimately yielding water-soluble salts that are difficult to separate from inorganic reaction byproducts.
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