Recent advance in heterogenous electrocatalysts for highly selective nitrite reduction to ammonia under ambient condition

L Yue, W Song, L Zhang, Y Luo, Y Wang, T Li… - Small …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Industrial ammonia production mainly relies on the conventional Haber–Bosch process
accompanied by high energy consumption and plentiful carbon dioxide emissions, which …

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 …

Electrochemical ammonia synthesis: mechanistic understanding and catalyst design

H Shen, C Choi, J Masa, X Li, J Qiu, Y Jung, Z Sun - Chem, 2021 - cell.com
NH 3 production is dependent on the century-old Haber-Bosch process, which is energy and
capital intensive and relies on H 2 from steam reforming, hence, contributing to greenhouse …

Synergy between metals for small molecule activation: Enzymes and bio-inspired complexes

AC Ghosh, C Duboc, M Gennari - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Transition metal-driven small molecule activation is essential for the production of fuels and
chemicals or energy supply. The use of multimetallic catalysts, where two or more metal …

Solar‐Driven Nitrogen Fixation Catalyzed by Stable Radical‐Containing MOFs: Improved Efficiency Induced by a Structural Transformation

KQ Hu, PX Qiu, LW Zeng, SX Hu, L Mei… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Herein we present a new viologen‐based radical‐containing metal–organic framework
(RMOF) Gd‐IHEP‐7, which upon heating in air undergoes a single‐crystal‐to‐single‐crystal …

Tuning metal–metal interactions for cooperative small molecule activation

Q Wang, SH Brooks, T Liu, NC Tomson - Chemical Communications, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Cluster complexes have attracted interest for decades due to their promise of drawing
analogies to metallic surfaces and metalloenzyme active sites, but only recently have …

High-Spin [FeI3] Cluster Capable of Pnictogen Atom Capture

TP Latendresse, NP Litak, JS Zeng… - Journal of the …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Using a new hexanucleating anildophosphine ligand t BuLH3 (1, 3, 5-C6H9 (NHC6H3–5-F–
2-P (t Bu) 2) 3), the all-monovalent [FeI3] compound (t BuL) Fe3 (1) was isolated and …

Recent Advances in MOF‐Based Materials for Photocatalytic Nitrogen Fixation

K Hu, Z Huang, L Zeng, Z Zhang, L Mei… - European Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Solar‐driven photocatalytic nitrogen fixation is a low‐energy and environmentally friendly
strategy for NH3 synthesis, which is considered as a possible alternative to the Haber …

Contemporary macrocycles for discrete polymetallic complexes: Precise control over structure and function

MT Chaudhry, S Akine, MJ MacLachlan - Chemical Society Reviews, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The growth of multimetallic clusters and complexes can proceed in the presence of suitable
ligands, but often leads to polydisperse structures with poor solubility. As an alternative …

Bimetallics in a nutshell: complexes supported by chelating naphthyridine-based ligands

AN Desnoyer, A Nicolay, P Rios… - Accounts of chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Bimetallic motifs are a structural feature common to some of the most effective
and synthetically useful catalysts known, including in the active sites of many …