Abstract: | The title compound, [Au(C7H7S)(C18H15P)], is conformationally chiral and crystallizes from benzene–hexane as individually enantiopure crystals. This mononuclear compound has the AuI atom linearly bound to a triphenylphosphine P atom and to a phenyl C atom of a 2‐(methylsulfanyl)phenyl group. The angle at the AuI atom is 175.9 (2)°. The linear ligand coordination about the AuI atom has geometric parameters inside the remarkably narrow range found for gold complexes bound by a phosphine ligand and by the ortho‐C atom of a substituted phenyl group. This is the first example of gold(I) attached to a methylsulfanyl aromatic carbanion. |