Gold has survived in tombs, shipwrecks and museum cases with a stubborn glitter that other metals cannot match. While iron ...

Gold’s characteristic glow famously doesn’t fade for thousands of years—and scientists have finally found the molecular trick ...

Gold has been prized for thousands of years for its enduring shine, but Tulane University researchers have discovered that ...

More of gold’s charms have been revealed, as chemists report a rare stable gold catalyst in the +3 oxidation state. The high-valent transition-metal catalyst offers molecule makers a shiny new tool ...

Being found mostly in the native state, gold is one of the oldest elements known to man. The affection to gold was determined by it's unusual properties - heft, shine and ability to withstand ...

When it comes to metal catalysis, chemists have learned time and again that every component of a reaction matters, no matter how insignificant it might seem. Sometimes, it’s those trace ingredients ...

Despite gold's reputation as an inert element, chemists have mined a rich seam of catalytic reactions that use this metal. The latest example stakes out gold's claim as a versatile catalyst. At the ...

A new study gives a vivid example of unusual chemical reactivity found in the reactions with organogold complexes. Using the complex of modern physical methods joined with computational studies, the ...