The anion [Au
2(CS
3)
2]
2- has an unusually short Au-Au distance (2.80 Å) for a binuclear Au(I) complex. Wereport detailed Raman studies of the
nBu
4N
+ salt of this complex, including FT-Raman of the solid and UV/visresonance Raman of dimethyl sulfoxide solutions. All five totally symmetric vibrations of the anion have beenlocated and assigned. A band at
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= 125 cm
-1 is assigned to
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(Au
2). The visible-region electronic absorptionbands (384 (
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30 680) and 472 nm (
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610 M
-1 cm
-1)) are attributable to CS
32- localized transitions, as confirmedby the dominance of
sym(C-S
exo) (
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= 951 cm
-1) in RR spectra measured in this region. An absorption bandat 314 nm (22 250 M
-1 cm
-1) is assigned as the metal-metal
1(d
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*
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p
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) transition, largely because
sym(C-S
exo) is not strongly enhanced in RR involving this band. Observation of the expected strong resonance enhancementof
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(Au
2) was precluded as a result of masking by intense solvent Rayleigh scattering in the UV.