Recent Advances and Challenges of Electrocatalytic N2 Reduction to Ammonia

G Qing, R Ghazfar, ST Jackowski, F Habibzadeh… - Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Global ammonia production reached 175 million metric tons in 2016, 90% of which is
produced from high purity N2 and H2 gases at high temperatures and pressures via the …

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 …

Global nitrogen cycle: critical enzymes, organisms, and processes for nitrogen budgets and dynamics

X Zhang, BB Ward, DM Sigman - Chemical reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
Nitrogen (N) is used in many of life's fundamental biomolecules, and it is also a participant in
environmental redox chemistry. Biogeochemical processes control the amount and form of N …

[图书][B] Plant microbiomes for sustainable agriculture: current research and future challenges

AN Yadav - 2020 - Springer
The plant microbiomes play important role in plant growth promotion and soil fertility for
sustainable agriculture. Plant and soil are valuable natural resource harbouring hotspots of …

Near ambient N2 fixation on solid electrodes versus enzymes and homogeneous catalysts

O Westhead, J Barrio, A Bagger, JW Murray… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract The Mo/Fe nitrogenase enzyme is unique in its ability to efficiently reduce
dinitrogen to ammonia at atmospheric pressures and room temperature. Should an artificial …

Electron transfer in nitrogenase

HL Rutledge, FA Tezcan - Chemical reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
Nitrogenase is the only enzyme capable of reducing N2 to NH3. This challenging reaction
requires the coordinated transfer of multiple electrons from the reductase, Fe-protein, to the …

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 …

Quantum computing and simulations for energy applications: Review and perspective

HP Paudel, M Syamlal, SE Crawford, YL Lee… - ACS Engineering …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Quantum computing and simulations are creating transformative opportunities by exploiting
the principles of quantum mechanics in new ways to generate and process information. It is …

Reactivity, mechanism, and assembly of the alternative nitrogenases

AJ Jasniewski, CC Lee, MW Ribbe, Y Hu - Chemical reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
Biological nitrogen fixation is catalyzed by the enzyme nitrogenase, which facilitates the
cleavage of the relatively inert triple bond of N2. Nitrogenase is most commonly associated …

Review on the QM/MM methodologies and their application to metalloproteins

CE Tzeliou, MA Mermigki, D Tzeli - Molecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
The multiscaling quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics (QM/MM) approach was
introduced in 1976, while the extensive acceptance of this methodology started in the 1990s …