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 …

A DFT perspective on organometallic lanthanide chemistry

A Rajabi, R Grotjahn, D Rappoport, F Furche - Dalton Transactions, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Computational studies of the coordination chemistry and bonding of lanthanides have grown
in recent decades as the need for understanding the distinct physical, optical, and magnetic …

A rare-earth metal retrospective to stimulate all fields

JC Wedal, WJ Evans - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2021 - ACS Publications
Formulating insightful questions and experiments is crucial to the advancement of science.
The purpose of this Perspective is to encourage scientists in all areas of chemistry to ask …

Completing the Series of +2 Ions for the Lanthanide Elements: Synthesis of Molecular Complexes of Pr2+, Gd2+, Tb2+, and Lu2+

MR MacDonald, JE Bates, JW Ziller… - Journal of the …, 2013 - ACS Publications
The first examples of crystallographically characterizable complexes of Tb2+, Pr2+, Gd2+,
and Lu2+ have been isolated, which demonstrate that Ln2+ ions are accessible in soluble …

Tutorial on the Role of Cyclopentadienyl Ligands in the Discovery of Molecular Complexes of the Rare-Earth and Actinide Metals in New Oxidation States 136

WJ Evans - Organometallics, 2016 - ACS Publications
A fundamental aspect of any element is the range of oxidation states accessible for useful
chemistry. This tutorial describes the recent expansion of the number of oxidation states …

Small molecule activation by uranium tris (aryloxides): experimental and computational studies of binding of N2, coupling of CO, and deoxygenation insertion of CO2 …

SM Mansell, N Kaltsoyannis… - Journal of the American …, 2011 - ACS Publications
Previously unanticipated dinitrogen activation is exhibited by the well-known uranium tris
(aryloxide) U (ODtbp) 3, U (OC6H3-But2-2, 6) 3, and the tri-tert-butyl analogue U (OTtbp) 3 …

Expanding rare-earth oxidation state chemistry to molecular complexes of holmium (II) and erbium (II)

MR MacDonald, JE Bates, ME Fieser… - Journal of the …, 2012 - ACS Publications
The first molecular complexes of holmium and erbium in the+ 2 oxidation state have been
generated by reducing Cp′ 3Ln [Cp′= C5H4SiMe3; Ln= Ho (1), Er (2)] with KC8 in the …

Scandium-promoted direct conversion of dinitrogen into hydrazine derivatives via N–C bond formation

ZJ Lv, Z Huang, WX Zhang, Z ** - Journal of the American …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Direct conversion of dinitrogen (N2) into organic compounds, not through ammonia (NH3), is
of great significance both fundamentally and practically. Here we report a highly efficient …

Synthesis of a Crystalline Molecular Complex of Y2+, [(18-crown-6)K][(C5H4SiMe3)3Y]

MR MacDonald, JW Ziller… - Journal of the American …, 2011 - ACS Publications
The La2+ complex [K (18-crown-6)(OEt2)][Cp ″3La](1)[Cp ″= C5H3 (SiMe3) 2-1, 3], can
be synthesized under N2, but in the presence of KC5Me5, 1 reduces N2 to the (N N) 2 …

Solution Synthesis, Structure, and CO2 Reduction Reactivity of a Scandium(II) Complex, {Sc[N(SiMe3)2]3}

DH Woen, GP Chen, JW Ziller, TJ Boyle… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The first crystallographically characterizable complex of Sc2+,[Sc (NR2) 3]−(R= SiMe3), has
been obtained by LnA3/M reactions (Ln= rare earth metal; A= anionic ligand; M= alkali …