Over this summer, I was fortunate enough to get to join the Goldberg Lab. The overall goal of the Goldberg Lab is to advance the technology of catalytic systems for chemical and fuel production in order to create a more environmentally sustainable future. My project focused on exploring a possible catalytic cycle to oxidize alkanes to olefins, an significant commercial reaction run on a large scale. More specifically, I worked under PhD candidate Yotam Ardon to synthesize the complex [PhPCP-Au-Br]OTf, an organometallic complex not yet characterized in literature due to its unique outer sphere. From this, I attempted to synthesize the gold hydride, which I was unable to isolate. However, I was still able to gain valuable insight into the reactivity of the ligand and the solvent effects of trying to produce the hydride.