Photocatalytic ammonia synthesis: Recent progress and future

S Zhang, Y Zhao, R Shi, GIN Waterhouse, T Zhang - EnergyChem, 2019 - Elsevier
Ammonia (NH 3) is one of the most important commodity chemicals in today's chemical
industry. Industrially, ammonia is synthesized via the Haber-Bosch process at high …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

A bound reaction intermediate sheds light on the mechanism of nitrogenase

D Sippel, M Rohde, J Netzer, C Trncik, J Gies… - Science, 2018 - science.org
Reduction of N2 by nitrogenases occurs at an organometallic iron cofactor that commonly
also contains either molybdenum or vanadium. The well-characterized resting state of the …

[HTML][HTML] Photocatalytic nitrogen reduction to ammonia: Insights into the role of defect engineering in photocatalysts

H Shen, M Yang, L Hao, J Wang, J Strunk, Z Sun - Nano Research, 2022 - Springer
Engineering of defects in semiconductors provides an effective protocol for improving
photocatalytic N 2 conversion efficiency. This review focuses on the state-of-the-art progress …

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 …

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 …

Nitrogenase: a draft mechanism

BM Hoffman, D Lukoyanov, DR Dean… - Accounts of chemical …, 2013 - ACS Publications
Biological nitrogen fixation, the reduction of N2 to two NH3 molecules, supports more than
half the human population. The predominant form of the enzyme nitrogenase, which …

Catalytic Reduction of N2 to NH3 by an Fe–N2 Complex Featuring a C-Atom Anchor

SE Creutz, JC Peters - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2014 - ACS Publications
While recent spectroscopic studies have established the presence of an interstitial carbon
atom at the center of the iron–molybdenum cofactor (FeMoco) of MoFe-nitrogenase, its role …

Heterojunction photocatalysts for artificial nitrogen fixation: fundamentals, latest advances and future perspectives

J Lee, LL Tan, SP Chai - Nanoscale, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
As an indispensable energy source, ammonia plays an essential role in agriculture and
various industries. Given that the current ammonia production is still dominated by the …

Artificial nitrogen fixation over bismuth-based photocatalysts: fundamentals and future perspectives

Y Huang, N Zhang, Z Wu, X Xie - Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Ammonia, one of the most basic substances in modern organic synthesis, is not only of great
significance to human society, but also the backbone on which earth's life depends …