Reversible Dissolution/Deposition of Gold in Iodine- Iodide-Acetonitrile Systems
Y. Nakao and K. Sone [J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun., pp. 897-898, 1996]
Gold can be dissolved on heating in iodine-iodide-acetonitrile solvent systems, where the ratio I2/I- is > 0.5, as [AuI2]-, and deposited from the resulting solution on cooling via the formation of [AuI4]-.
