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- Title
Nitrogen reduction: Molybdenum does it again.
- Authors
Schrock, Richard R.
- Abstract
The article focuses on molybdenum as catalyst precursor for dinitrogen reduction. It notes that nature reduces dinitrogen under mild conditions using nitrogenases, in which the most active contains molybdenum and iron. It adds that molybdenum is the only abiological dinitrogen catalyst that avoids the harsh condition of the Haber-Bosch process. It mentions the article of Yoshiaki Nishibayashi and colleagues which describes a catalytic reduction of dinitrogen selectivity to ammonia under mild conditions. It tells that since the discovery of the first dinitrogen complex, J. Chatt's proposal that dinitrogen can be decreased by protons and electrons on binding to a single molybdenum has now been demonstrated with a molybdenum catalyst which differs in detail from the first catalyst.
- Subjects
MOLYBDENUM; NITROGEN; NITROGENASES; CATALYSTS; AMMONIA; NISHIBAYASHI, Yoshiaki; CHATT, J.; PROTONS; ELECTRONS
- Publication
Nature Chemistry, 2011, Vol 3, Issue 2, p95
- ISSN
1755-4330
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/nchem.977