Poly-1-Au was then recovered by filtration and air-dried before pyrolyzing in a claygraphite crucible at 1200 ºC. The resulting gold-containing material was recovered and transferred to a ceramic crucible for pyrolysis using a Bunsen burner and handheld butane torch, which provided 3.94 grams of a crude gold-containing powder, black in color. The gold was purified by re-leaching with TCCA (9.0 g, 38.7 mmol) and NaBr (2.0 g, 19.4 mmol) in 150 mL of tap water, and then reductively precipitated by reaction with ascorbic acid (16.5 g, 93.7 mmol). The final gold product was isolated by filtration and then melted into solid gold beads using a Bunsen burner and butane torch (Fig. ). The final gold bead was 99.9% pure and isolated in 86% yield (3.34 g). The excellent mass balance, yield and purity of the gold is a testament of the effective integration of the leaching method, selective gold sorption, and refining steps.