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Facile conversion of ammonia to a nitride in a rhenium system that cleaves dinitrogen

Published:2022 Issue:14 Volume:13 Page:4010-4018
ISSN:2041-6520
Container-title:Chemical Science
language:en
Short-container-title:Chem. Sci.

Author:

Connor Gannon P.¹^ORCID,Delony Daniel²,Weber Jeremy E.¹,Mercado Brandon Q.¹,Curley Julia B.¹,Schneider Sven²^ORCID,Mayer James M.¹^ORCID,Holland Patrick L.¹^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Chemistry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

2. Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

Abstract

Rhenium–PNP complexes split N2 to nitrides, but the nitrides do not give ammonia. Here, the thermodynamics of the hypothetical N–H bond forming steps are evaluated through the reverse reaction, showing that the first H addition is the bottleneck.

Funder

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

National Science Foundation

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Subject

General Chemistry

Link

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2022/SC/D1SC04503B

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