Dinitrogen rearranging over a metal-oxo surface and cleaving to nitride: From the end-on to the side-on bonding mode, to the stepwise cleavage of the N≡N bonds assisted by Nb(III)-calix[4]arene

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 122, Issue 15, 2000, Pages 3652-3670

  Caselli, Alessandro ^a   Solari, Euro ^a   Scopelliti, Rosario ^a   Floriani, Carlo ^a   Re, Nazzareno ^b   Rizzoli, Corrado ^c   Chiesi Villa, Angiola ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIXARENE; METAL COMPLEX; NITROGEN;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; COMPLEX FORMATION; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; SYNTHESIS;

EID: 0034685509     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja9943288     Document Type: Article

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