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Open AccessCatalytic production of ammonia from dinitrogen employing molybdenum complexes bearing N-heterocyclic carbene-based PCP-type pincer ligands
Mechanistic insight into the catalytic production of ammonia from dinitrogen is needed to improve the synthesis of this vital molecule. Here we study the use of samarium diiodide (SmI2) and water in the presence ...
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Open AccessCatalytic nitrogen fixation using visible light energy
The synthesis of ammonia from atmospheric dinitrogen, nitrogen fixation, is one of the essential reactions for human beings. Because the current industrial nitrogen fixation depends on dihydrogen produced from...
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Open AccessDirect synthesis of cyanate anion from dinitrogen catalysed by molybdenum complexes bearing pincer-type ligand
Dinitrogen is an abundant and promising material for valuable organonitrogen compounds containing carbon–nitrogen bonds. Direct synthetic methods for preparing organonitrogen compounds from dinitrogen as a sta...
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Molybdenum-catalysed ammonia production with samarium diiodide and alcohols or water
The production of ammonia from nitrogen gas is one of the most important industrial processes, owing to the use of ammonia as a raw material for nitrogen fertilizers. Currently, the main method of ammonia prod...
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Open AccessRemarkable catalytic activity of dinitrogen-bridged dimolybdenum complexes bearing NHC-based PCP-pincer ligands toward nitrogen fixation
Intensive efforts for the transformation of dinitrogen using transition metal–dinitrogen complexes as catalysts under mild reaction conditions have been made. However, limited systems have succeeded in the cat...
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Open AccessCatalytic transformation of dinitrogen into ammonia and hydrazine by iron-dinitrogen complexes bearing pincer ligand
Synthesis and reactivity of iron-dinitrogen complexes have been extensively studied, because the iron atom plays an important role in the industrial and biological nitrogen fixation. As a result, iron-catalyze...
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Open AccessUnique behaviour of dinitrogen-bridged dimolybdenum complexes bearing pincer ligand towards catalytic formation of ammonia
It is vital to design effective nitrogen fixation systems that operate under mild conditions, and to this end we recently reported an example of the catalytic formation of ammonia using a dinitrogen-bridged di...
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A molybdenum complex bearing PNP-type pincer ligands leads to the catalytic reduction of dinitrogen into ammonia
The synthesis of transition metal–dinitrogen complexes and the stoichiometric transformation of their coordinated dinitrogen into ammonia and hydrazine have been the subject of considerable research, with a vi...
