Kinetics of laser-stimulated precipitation of gold from the liquid phase

An investigation was made of the kinetics of pyrolytic precipitation of gold from eight different triphenylphosphine complexes. The precipitation was initiated by copper vapor laser radiation at the interface between a solution of an organometallic compound and a solid. The temperatures for activation of the decomposition of the investigated Au complexes, dissolved in dimethylformamide, were determined: T_α = 1800–9400 K.