Ammonia formation by metal-ligand cooperative hydrogenolysis of a nitrido ligand

Nature Chemistry

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 532-537

  Askevold, Bjorn ^a,b   Nieto, Jorge Torres ^a   Tussupbayev, Samat ^c   Diefenbach, Martin ^c   Herdtweck, Eberhardt ^a   Holthausen, Max C ^c   Schneider, Sven ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; HYDROGEN; LIGAND; NITROGEN; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUND; RUTHENIUM;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; QUANTUM THEORY; SYNTHESIS; THERMODYNAMICS;

AMMONIA; HYDROGEN; LIGANDS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NITROGEN; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUNDS; QUANTUM THEORY; RUTHENIUM; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 79959587333     PISSN: 17554330     EISSN: 17554349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nchem.1051     Document Type: Article

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