Nitrogen fixation via splitting into nitrido complexes

SJK Forrest, B Schluschaß, EY Yuzik-Klimova… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The large carbon footprint of the Haber–Bosch process, which provides ammonia for
fertilizers but also the feedstock for all nitrogenous commercial products, has fueled the …

Catalytic N2-to-NH3 (or -N2H4) Conversion by Well-Defined Molecular Coordination Complexes

MJ Chalkley, MW Drover, JC Peters - Chemical reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
Nitrogen fixation, the six-electron/six-proton reduction of N2, to give NH3, is one of the most
challenging and important chemical transformations. Notwithstanding the barriers …

Beyond ammonia: nitrogen–element bond forming reactions with coordinated dinitrogen

S Kim, F Loose, PJ Chirik - Chemical reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
The functionalization of coordinated dinitrogen to form nitrogen–element bonds en route to
nitrogen-containing molecules is a long-standing challenge in chemical synthesis. The …

Activation of dinitrogen by polynuclear metal complexes

D Singh, WR Buratto, JF Torres, LJ Murray - Chemical reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
Activation of dinitrogen plays an important role in daily anthropogenic life, and the processes
by which this fixation occurs have been a longstanding and significant research focus within …

Examining the relationship between coordination mode and reactivity of dinitrogen

RJ Burford, MD Fryzuk - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2017 - nature.com
Molecular nitrogen (N2) is the most abundant gas in Earth's atmosphere, but its low reactivity
has hampered its use as a precursor to higher value nitrogen-containing compounds …

Kinetic isotope effects in the study of organometallic reaction mechanisms

M Gomez-Gallego, MA Sierra - Chemical reviews, 2011 - ACS Publications
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Design and optimization of catalysts based on mechanistic insights derived from quantum chemical reaction modeling

S Ahn, M Hong, M Sundararajan, DH Ess… - Chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Until recently, computational tools were mainly used to explain chemical reactions after
experimental results were obtained. With the rapid development of software and hardware …

Developing more sustainable processes for ammonia synthesis

Y Tanabe, Y Nishibayashi - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2013 - Elsevier
This paper describes a recent advance on the conversion of molecular dinitrogen into
ammonia or ammonia equivalent, silylamine, by using transition metal–dinitrogen …

Dinitrogen coordination chemistry: on the biomimetic borderlands

BA MacKay, MD Fryzuk - Chemical reviews, 2004 - ACS Publications
Biological nitrogen fixation by the nitrogenase enzymes has long been a touchstone for
dinitrogen chemists. 1, 2 Both the enzymatic reduction and protonation of N2 mediated by …

Catalytic reduction of dinitrogen to ammonia at a single molybdenum center

RR Schrock - Accounts of chemical research, 2005 - ACS Publications
This Account explores the catalytic reduction of dinitrogen by molybdenum complexes that
contain the [HIPTN3N] 3-ligand ([HIPTN3N] 3-=[(HIPTNCH2CH2) 3N] 3-, where HIPT= 3, 5 …