Selective CF3 Substitution for Affecting the Physical and Chemical Properties of Gold Corroles

Gold corroles have been hardly accessible and display no interesting physical or chemical properties. We now introduce a facile methodology for obtaining selectively CF3-substituted gold(III) corroles and show that the introduction of these groups has immense effects on the structures of the complexes, their photophysical and redox properties, and on their ability to participate in catalytic processes.