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 …

Catalysts for nitrogen reduction to ammonia

SL Foster, SIP Bakovic, RD Duda, S Maheshwari… - Nature Catalysis, 2018 - nature.com
The production of synthetic ammonia remains dependent on the energy-and capital-
intensive Haber–Bosch process. Extensive research in molecular catalysis has …

Single Mo atom supported on defective boron nitride monolayer as an efficient electrocatalyst for nitrogen fixation: a computational study

J Zhao, Z Chen - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2017 - ACS Publications
The production of ammonia (NH3) from molecular dinitrogen (N2) under mild conditions is
one of the most attractive and challenging processes in chemistry. Here by means of density …

Catalytic N2-to-NH3 (or -N2H4) Conversion by Well-Defined Molecular Coordination Complexes

MJ Chalkley, MW Drover, JC Peters - Chemical reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
Nitrogen fixation, the six-electron/six-proton reduction of N2, to give NH3, is one of the most
challenging and important chemical transformations. Notwithstanding the barriers …

Heterogeneous Fe3 single-cluster catalyst for ammonia synthesis via an associative mechanism

JC Liu, XL Ma, Y Li, YG Wang, H Xiao, J Li - Nature communications, 2018 - nature.com
The current industrial ammonia synthesis relies on Haber–Bosch process that is initiated by
the dissociative mechanism, in which the adsorbed N2 dissociates directly, and thus is …

Photocatalytic fixation of nitrogen to ammonia: state-of-the-art advancements and future prospects

X Chen, N Li, Z Kong, WJ Ong, X Zhao - Materials Horizons, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
The burgeoning development of ammonia (NH3) synthesis technology addresses the
urgency of food intake required to sustain the population growth of the last 100 years. To …

Conversion of Dinitrogen to Ammonia by FeN3-Embedded Graphene

XF Li, QK Li, J Cheng, L Liu, Q Yan, Y Wu… - Journal of the …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Nitrogen fixation is one of the most important issues but a long-standing challenge in
chemistry. Here, we propose FeN3-embedded graphene as the catalyst for nitrogen fixation …

Promising prospects for 2D d 2–d 4 M 3 C 2 transition metal carbides (MXenes) in N 2 capture and conversion into ammonia

LM Azofra, N Li, DR MacFarlane, C Sun - Energy & Environmental …, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Density functional theory investigations of M3C2 transition metal carbides from the d2, d3,
and d4 series suggest promising N2 capture behaviour, displaying spontaneous …

Beyond ammonia: nitrogen–element bond forming reactions with coordinated dinitrogen

S Kim, F Loose, PJ Chirik - Chemical reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
The functionalization of coordinated dinitrogen to form nitrogen–element bonds en route to
nitrogen-containing molecules is a long-standing challenge in chemical synthesis. The …

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 …