Electro-and solar-driven fuel synthesis with first row transition metal complexes

KE Dalle, J Warnan, JJ Leung, B Reuillard… - Chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
The synthesis of renewable fuels from abundant water or the greenhouse gas CO2 is a
major step toward creating sustainable and scalable energy storage technologies. In the last …

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 …

Catalytic transformation of dinitrogen into ammonia and hydrazine by iron-dinitrogen complexes bearing pincer ligand

S Kuriyama, K Arashiba, K Nakajima, Y Matsuo… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
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 …

Metal–Sulfur Compounds in N2 Reduction and Nitrogenase-Related Chemistry

K Tanifuji, Y Ohki - Chemical reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
Transition metal–sulfur (M–S) compounds are an indispensable means for biological
systems to convert N2 into NH3 (biological N2 fixation), and these may have emerged by …

Synergy between metals for small molecule activation: Enzymes and bio-inspired complexes

AC Ghosh, C Duboc, M Gennari - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Transition metal-driven small molecule activation is essential for the production of fuels and
chemicals or energy supply. The use of multimetallic catalysts, where two or more metal …

Binding of dinitrogen to an iron–sulfur–carbon site

I Čorić, BQ Mercado, E Bill, DJ Vinyard, PL Holland - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Nitrogenases are the enzymes by which certain microorganisms convert atmospheric
dinitrogen (N2) to ammonia, thereby providing essential nitrogen atoms for higher …

Direct transformation of molecular dinitrogen into ammonia catalyzed by cobalt dinitrogen complexes bearing anionic PNP pincer ligands

S Kuriyama, K Arashiba, H Tanaka… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The direct formation of ammonia from molecular dinitrogen under mild reaction conditions
was achieved by using new cobalt dinitrogen complexes bearing an anionic PNP‐type …

Recent progress in transition-metal-catalyzed reduction of molecular dinitrogen under ambient reaction conditions

Y Nishibayashi - Inorganic chemistry, 2015 - ACS Publications
This paper describes our recent progress in catalytic nitrogen fixation by using transition-
metal–dinitrogen complexes as catalysts. Two reaction systems for the catalytic …

Dinitrogen binding and activation at a molybdenum–iron–sulfur cluster

A McSkimming, DLM Suess - Nature Chemistry, 2021 - nature.com
The Fe–S clusters of nitrogenases carry out the life-sustaining conversion of N2 to NH3.
Although progress continues to be made in modelling the structural features of nitrogenase …

Computational screening of a single transition metal atom supported on the C 2 N monolayer for electrochemical ammonia synthesis

Z Wang, Z Yu, J Zhao - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
The nitrogen reduction reaction (NRR) under ambient conditions using renewable energy is
a green and sustainable strategy for the synthesis of NH3, which is one of the most important …