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 …

Metallomimetic chemistry of boron

MA Légaré, C Pranckevicius, H Braunschweig - Chemical reviews, 2019 - ACS Publications
The study of main-group molecules that behave and react similarly to transition-metal (TM)
complexes has attracted significant interest in recent decades. Most notably, the attractive …

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 …

N2 Reduction and Hydrogenation to Ammonia by a Molecular Iron-Potassium Complex

MM Rodriguez, E Bill, WW Brennessel, PL Holland - Science, 2011 - science.org
The most common catalyst in the Haber-Bosch process for the hydrogenation of dinitrogen
(N2) to ammonia (NH3) is an iron surface promoted with potassium cations (K+), but soluble …

The chemistry of β-diketiminatometal complexes

L Bourget-Merle, MF Lappert, JR Severn - Chemical Reviews, 2002 - ACS Publications
Although the β-diketonato1 I and β-enaminoketonato2, 3 II ligands are among the most
ubiquitous chelating systems in coordination chemistry, the isoelectronic β-diketiminato …

Catalytic Reduction of N2 to NH3 by an Fe–N2 Complex Featuring a C-Atom Anchor

SE Creutz, JC Peters - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2014 - ACS Publications
While recent spectroscopic studies have established the presence of an interstitial carbon
atom at the center of the iron–molybdenum cofactor (FeMoco) of MoFe-nitrogenase, its role …

Nitrogenase-mimic iron-containing chalcogels for photochemical reduction of dinitrogen to ammonia

J Liu, MS Kelley, W Wu, A Banerjee… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
A nitrogenase-inspired biomimetic chalcogel system comprising double-cubane [Mo2Fe6S8
(SPh) 3] and single-cubane (Fe4S4) biomimetic clusters demonstrates photocatalytic N2 …

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 …

Low‐Temperature N2 Binding to Two‐Coordinate L2Fe0 Enables Reductive Trap** of L2FeN2 and NH3 Generation

G Ung, JC Peters - Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The two‐coordinate [(CAAC) 2Fe] complex [CAAC= cyclic (alkyl)(amino) carbene]
binds dinitrogen at low temperature (T<− 80° C). The resulting putative three‐coordinate N2 …