Beyond acceptable limits: intrinsic contamination in commercial 15N2 impedes reliable N2 reduction experiments-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Beyond acceptable limits: intrinsic contamination in commercial ¹⁵N₂ impedes reliable N₂ reduction experiments

Published:2024 Issue:3 Volume:26 Page:1302-1305
ISSN:1463-9262
Container-title:Green Chemistry
language:en
Short-container-title:Green Chem.

Author:

De Ras Michiel¹^ORCID,Hollevoet Lander²^ORCID,Martens Johan. A.²^ORCID,Liu Tianxi³,Nicolai Bart M.⁴,Hertog Maarten L. A. T. M.⁴,Hofkens Johan¹⁵^ORCID,Roeffaers Maarten B. J.⁶^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Molecular Imaging and Photonics, Department of Chemistry, KU Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200F, Leuven, 3001, Belgium

2. Centre of Surface Chemistry and Catalysis: Characterisation and Application team, KU Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200F—box 2461, 3001 Leuven, Belgium

3. The Key Laboratory of Synthetic and Biological Colloids, Ministry of Education, School of Chemical and Material Engineering, International Joint Research Laboratory for Nano Energy Composites, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, 214122, China

4. MeBioS, Department of Biosystems, KU Leuven, Willem de Croylaan 42, 3001 Leuven, Belgium

5. Max Plank Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, D-55128, Germany

6. Centre for Membrane Separations, Adsorption, Catalysis, and Spectroscopy for Sustainable Solutions, Department of Microbial and Molecular Systems, KU Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200F, 3001 Leuven, Belgium

Abstract

The validity of N2 reduction experiments relies on control experiments with isotopically labelled 15N2. Commercially obtained 15N2 contains high amounts of 15NH3 and other activated nitrogen species which are readily reduced to 15NH3.

Funder

Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek

KU Leuven

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Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Link

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2024/GC/D3GC04272C

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