Reduction of substrates by nitrogenases

LC Seefeldt, ZY Yang, DA Lukoyanov, DF Harris… - Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Nitrogenase is the enzyme that catalyzes biological N2 reduction to NH3. This enzyme
achieves an impressive rate enhancement over the uncatalyzed reaction. Given the high …

Mechanism of nitrogen fixation by nitrogenase: the next stage

BM Hoffman, D Lukoyanov, ZY Yang, DR Dean… - Chemical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Nitrogen is an essential element contained in many biomolecules necessary to sustain life.
1, 2 This element is abundantly available in Earth's atmosphere in the form of dinitrogen …

An amorphous noble‐metal‐free electrocatalyst that enables nitrogen fixation under ambient conditions

C Lv, C Yan, G Chen, Y Ding, J Sun… - Angewandte …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
N2 fixation by the electrocatalytic nitrogen reduction reaction (NRR) under ambient
conditions is regarded as a potential approach to achieve NH3 production, which still …

Catalytic conversion of nitrogen to ammonia by an iron model complex

JS Anderson, J Rittle, JC Peters - Nature, 2013 - nature.com
The reduction of nitrogen (N2) to ammonia (NH3) is a requisite transformation for life.
Although it is widely appreciated that the iron-rich cofactors of nitrogenase enzymes facilitate …

Metal-free black phosphorus nanosheets-decorated graphitic carbon nitride nanosheets with CP bonds for excellent photocatalytic nitrogen fixation

P Qiu, C Xu, N Zhou, H Chen, F Jiang - Applied catalysis B: environmental, 2018 - Elsevier
Visible light photocatalytic nitrogen fixation, as a low-cost and mild technology, needs efforts
to explore an economical photocatalyst with high activity and stability. In this study, a metal …

The spectroscopy of nitrogenases

C Van Stappen, L Decamps, GE Cutsail III… - Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Nitrogenases are responsible for biological nitrogen fixation, a crucial step in the
biogeochemical nitrogen cycle. These enzymes utilize a two-component protein system and …

Kinetic isotope effects in the study of organometallic reaction mechanisms

M Gomez-Gallego, MA Sierra - Chemical reviews, 2011 - ACS Publications
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Photochemical nitrogen conversion to ammonia in ambient conditions with FeMoS-chalcogels

A Banerjee, BD Yuhas, EA Margulies… - Journal of the …, 2015 - ACS Publications
In nature, nitrogen fixation is one of the most important life processes and occurs primarily in
microbial organisms containing enzymes called nitrogenases. These complex proteins …

A molybdenum complex bearing PNP-type pincer ligands leads to the catalytic reduction of dinitrogen into ammonia

K Arashiba, Y Miyake, Y Nishibayashi - Nature chemistry, 2011 - nature.com
The synthesis of transition metal–dinitrogen complexes and the stoichiometric
transformation of their coordinated dinitrogen into ammonia and hydrazine have been the …

Black phosphorus-based heterostructures for photocatalysis and photoelectrochemical water splitting

S Li, Y Zhang, H Huang - Journal of Energy Chemistry, 2022 - Elsevier
Semiconductor-based photocatalytic and photoelectrochemical (PEC) processes can
convert solar energy into high-density chemical energy or for the treatment of environmental …