Molecular catalysts with diphosphine ligands containing pendant amines

ES Wiedner, AM Appel, S Raugei, WJ Shaw… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Pendant amines play an invaluable role in chemical reactivity, especially for molecular
catalysts based on earth-abundant metals. As inspired by [FeFe]-hydrogenases, which …

Comprehensive insights into synthetic nitrogen fixation assisted by molecular catalysts under ambient or mild conditions

Y Tanabe, Y Nishibayashi - Chemical Society Reviews, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
N2 is fixed as NH3 industrially by the Haber–Bosch process under harsh conditions,
whereas biological nitrogen fixation is achieved under ambient conditions, which has …

Electrochemical ammonia oxidation with molecular catalysts

HY Liu, HMC Lant, CC Cody, J Jelušić… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Electrocatalytic ammonia oxidation (AO) provides an attractive route to a carbon-neutral fuel
economy and the energy-efficient production of value-added feedstocks. The design and …

Electrocatalytic ammonia oxidation by a low-coordinate copper complex

ME Ahmed, M Raghibi Boroujeni, P Ghosh… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Molecular catalysts for ammonia oxidation to dinitrogen represent enabling components to
utilize ammonia as a fuel and/or source of hydrogen. Ammonia oxidation requires not only …

Spontaneous N2 formation by a diruthenium complex enables electrocatalytic and aerobic oxidation of ammonia

MJ Trenerry, CM Wallen, TR Brown, SV Park… - Nature Chemistry, 2021 - nature.com
The electrochemical conversion of ammonia to dinitrogen in a direct ammonia fuel cell
(DAFC) is a necessary technology for the realization of a nitrogen economy. Previous efforts …

Design of ammonia oxidation electrocatalysts for efficient direct ammonia fuel cells

ZH Lyu, J Fu, T Tang, J Zhang, JS Hu - EnergyChem, 2023 - Elsevier
In the past few decades, renewable-energy-driven fuel cell technologies have been widely
investigated as promising approaches to alleviate the energy and environmental crisis …

Direct synthesis of hydrazine by efficient electrochemical ruthenium-catalysed ammonia oxidation

G Chen, P He, C Liu, XF Mo, JJ Wei, ZW Chen… - Nature Catalysis, 2023 - nature.com
A century after hydrazine was discovered, its synthesis remains a challenge due to its high
energy requirement and favourable subsequent conversion. As an alternative to the …

Determining proton-coupled standard potentials and X–H bond dissociation free energies in nonaqueous solvents using open-circuit potential measurements

CF Wise, RG Agarwal, JM Mayer - Journal of the American …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Proton-coupled electron transfer (PCET) reactions are increasingly being studied in
nonaqueous conditions, where the thermochemistry of PCET substrates is largely unknown …

Oxidation of ammonia with molecular complexes

PL Dunn, BJ Cook, SI Johnson, AM Appel… - Journal of the …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Oxidation of ammonia by molecular complexes is a burgeoning area of research, with critical
scientific challenges that must be addressed. A fundamental understanding of individual …

A Parent Iron Amido Complex in Catalysis of Ammonia Oxidation

Y Li, JY Chen, Q Miao, X Yu, L Feng… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Parent amido complexes are crucial intermediates in ammonia-based transformations. We
report a well-defined ferric ammine system [Cp* Fe (1, 2-Ph2PC6H4NH)(NH3)]+([1-NH3]+) …