Chart 1. Selected examples of transition metal – group 13 complexes: coinage metal complexes made by metathesis using boryl or gallyl nucleophiles (I);17,18 an Fe–Al bond synthesized from [CpFe(CO)2]− (II);19 transition metal complexes of AlCp* and GaCp* (II and III);20,21 previously communicated aluminium–gold complexes formed from an aluminyl nucleophile and Au(i) electrophiles (V and VI).22.
