Unique behaviour of dinitrogen-bridged dimolybdenum complexes bearing pincer ligand towards catalytic formation of ammonia

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Tanaka, Hiromasa ^a,b   Arashiba, Kazuya ^c   Kuriyama, Shogo ^c   Sasada, Akira ^a,b   Nakajima, Kazunari ^c   Yoshizawa, Kazunari ^a,b   Nishibayashi, Yoshiaki ^c  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; DINITROGEN BRIDGED DIMOLYBDENUM COMPLEX; LIGAND; MOLYBDENUM COMPLEX; NITROGEN DERIVATIVE; PINCER LIGAND; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; FERTILIZER; MOLYBDENUM; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUND;

AMMONIA; CATALYSIS; COMPLEXATION; LIGAND; MOLYBDENUM; NITROGEN FIXATION; REACTION KINETICS; STOICHIOMETRY;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; PROTON TRANSPORT; STOICHIOMETRY; CHEMISTRY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NITROGEN FIXATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

AMMONIA; CATALYSIS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; FERTILIZERS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MOLYBDENUM; NITROGEN FIXATION; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84899631953     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4737     Document Type: Article

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