Second and outer coordination sphere effects in nitrogenase, hydrogenase, formate dehydrogenase, and CO dehydrogenase

ST Stripp, BR Duffus, V Fourmond, C Léger… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Gases like H2, N2, CO2, and CO are increasingly recognized as critical feedstock in “green”
energy conversion and as sources of nitrogen and carbon for the agricultural and chemical …

Exploiting biological nitrogen fixation: a route towards a sustainable agriculture

A Soumare, AG Diedhiou, M Thuita, M Hafidi… - Plants, 2020 - mdpi.com
For all living organisms, nitrogen is an essential element, while being the most limiting in
ecosystems and for crop production. Despite the significant contribution of synthetic …

Reactant-induced dynamics of lithium imide surfaces during the ammonia decomposition process

M Yang, U Raucci, M Parrinello - Nature Catalysis, 2023 - nature.com
Ammonia decomposition on lithium imide surfaces has been intensively investigated owing
to its potential role in a sustainable hydrogen-based economy. Here, through advanced …

Using nature's blueprint to expand catalysis with Earth-abundant metals

RM Bullock, JG Chen, L Gagliardi, PJ Chirik, OK Farha… - Science, 2020 - science.org
BACKGROUND Catalysis has had a transformative impact on society, playing a crucial role
in the production of modern materials, medicines, fuels, and chemicals. Precious metals …

Reduction of substrates by nitrogenases

LC Seefeldt, ZY Yang, DA Lukoyanov, DF Harris… - Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Nitrogenase is the enzyme that catalyzes biological N2 reduction to NH3. This enzyme
achieves an impressive rate enhancement over the uncatalyzed reaction. Given the high …

Near ambient N2 fixation on solid electrodes versus enzymes and homogeneous catalysts

O Westhead, J Barrio, A Bagger, JW Murray… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract The Mo/Fe nitrogenase enzyme is unique in its ability to efficiently reduce
dinitrogen to ammonia at atmospheric pressures and room temperature. Should an artificial …

Electron transfer in nitrogenase

HL Rutledge, FA Tezcan - Chemical reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
Nitrogenase is the only enzyme capable of reducing N2 to NH3. This challenging reaction
requires the coordinated transfer of multiple electrons from the reductase, Fe-protein, to the …

Bimetallic PdFe3 Nano‐Alloy with Tunable Electron Configuration for Boosting Electrochemical Nitrogen Fixation

J Mu, Z Zhao, XW Gao, ZM Liu, WB Luo… - Advanced Energy …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Electrocatalyst plays animportant role in electrochemical ammonia synthesis by determining
the nitrogen reduction reaction pathway. Featuring the inherent half‐filled 3d orbitals, ion …

The spectroscopy of nitrogenases

C Van Stappen, L Decamps, GE Cutsail III… - Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Nitrogenases are responsible for biological nitrogen fixation, a crucial step in the
biogeochemical nitrogen cycle. These enzymes utilize a two-component protein system and …

Reactivity, mechanism, and assembly of the alternative nitrogenases

AJ Jasniewski, CC Lee, MW Ribbe, Y Hu - Chemical reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
Biological nitrogen fixation is catalyzed by the enzyme nitrogenase, which facilitates the
cleavage of the relatively inert triple bond of N2. Nitrogenase is most commonly associated …