First-row transition metal-based materials derived from bimetallic metal–organic frameworks as highly efficient electrocatalysts for electrochemical water splitting

S Sanati, A Morsali, H Garcia - Energy & Environmental Science, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Electrochemical water splitting is a mature technology for hydrogen generation. Numerous
studies have focused on the development of highly efficient electrocatalysts to produce …

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 …

Cationic Effects on the Net Hydrogen Atom Bond Dissociation Free Energy of High-Valent Manganese Imido Complexes

NG Léonard, T Chantarojsiri, JW Ziller… - Journal of the American …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Local electric fields can alter energy landscapes to impart enhanced reactivity in enzymes
and at surfaces. Similar fields can be generated in molecular systems using charged …

Unusual Hydrogenation Reactivities of a Thiolate-Bridged Dicobalt μ-Nitride Featuring a Bent {CoIII–N–CoIII} Core

T Mei, P Zhang, Z Song, B Wang, J Qu… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Transition metal nitrides have received considerable attention owing to their crucial roles in
nitrogen fixation and nitrogen atom transfer reactions. Compared to the early and middle …

Synthesis, structure, and reactivity of uranium (VI) nitrides

L Barluzzi, FC Hsueh, R Scopelliti, BE Atkinson… - Chemical …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Uranium nitride compounds are important molecular analogues of uranium nitride materials
such as UN and UN2 which are effective catalysts in the Haber–Bosch synthesis of …

Reactivity of Multimetallic Thorium Nitrides Generated by Reduction of Thorium Azides

FC Hsueh, L Barluzzi, M Keener… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Thorium nitrides are likely intermediates in the reported cleavage and functionalization of
dinitrogen by molecular thorium complexes and are attractive compounds for the study of …

Proton-Induced Switching of Paramagnetism: Reversible Conversion between a Low and High Spin CoIII Center within a Heterobimetallic Core

PN Phu, JL Lee, S Biswas, JW Ziller… - Journal of the …, 2025 - ACS Publications
The development of molecular species with switchable magnetic properties has been a long-
standing challenge in chemistry. One approach involves binding an analyte, such as …

Electronic structure analysis of copper photoredox catalysts using the quasi-restricted orbital approach

C Sandoval-Pauker, B Pinter - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
In this computational study, the electronic structure changes along the oxidative and
reductive quenching cycles of a homoleptic and a heteroleptic prototype Cu (I) photoredox …

N− H bond formation at a diiron bridging nitride

S Zhang, P Cui, T Liu, Q Wang, TJ Longo… - Angewandte …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Despite their connection to ammonia synthesis, little is known about the ability of iron‐
bound, bridging nitrides to form N− H bonds. Herein we report a linear diiron bridging nitride …

Lewis Base-Enhanced C–H Bond Functionalization Mediated by a Diiron Imido Complex

RK Gwinn, TP Latendresse, ON Beck… - Inorganic …, 2025 - ACS Publications
Herein, we investigate the effects of ligand design on the nuclearity and reactivity of metal–
ligand multiply bonded (MLMB) complexes to access an exclusively bimetallic reaction …