ISSN:
0570-0833
Keywords:
Activation
;
Nitrogen fixation
;
Nitrogen fixation
;
Chemistry
;
General Chemistry
Source:
Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
Topics:
Chemistry and Pharmacology
Notes:
Several transition metal complexes that can absorb nitrogen from the gas phase are now known. Some of the N2-metal complexes are stable enough to be isolated and their structure elucidated, the N2 molecule remaining chemically inert. In other cases reduction to N3- is possible, but the structure of the reactive intermediate N2-metal complex can be approached only by mechanistic studies. In the stable complexes the nitrogen is bound via a lone pair of electrons in the direction of the molecular axis (“end-on”), in the reducible complexes possibly “edge-on”.
Additional Material:
12 Ill.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/anie.196906501
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