Nitrogen fixation and transformation with main group elements
Nitrogen fixation is essential for the maintenance of life and development of society, however, the large bond dissociation energy and nonpolarity of the triple bond constitute a considerable challenge. The transition metals, by virtue of their combination of empty and occupied d orbitals, are preva...
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| Published in | Chemical Society reviews Vol. 51; no. 1; pp. 3846 - 3861 |
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| Main Authors | , , , |
| Format | Journal Article |
| Language | English |
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England
Royal Society of Chemistry
23.05.2022
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| Summary: | Nitrogen fixation is essential for the maintenance of life and development of society, however, the large bond dissociation energy and nonpolarity of the triple bond constitute a considerable challenge. The transition metals, by virtue of their combination of empty and occupied d orbitals, are prevalent in the nitrogen fixation studies and are continuing to receive a significant focus. The main group metals have always been considered incapable in dinitrogen activation owing to the absence of energetically and symmetrically accessible orbitals. The past decades have witnessed significant breakthroughs in the dinitrogen activation with the main group elements and compounds
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either matrix isolation, theoretical calculations or synthetic chemistry. The successful reactions of the low-valent species of the main group elements with inert dinitrogen have been reported
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the π back-donation from either the d orbitals (Ca, Sr, Ba) or p orbitals (Be, B, C...). Herein, the significant achievements have been briefly summarized, along with predicting the future developments.
In this tutorial, we introduced the fundamental aspects of nitrogen fixation, summarized the recent progresses with main group elements and tried to make clear the clue for further developments. |
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| Bibliography: | using main group elements. 2 Prof. Zhang-Jie Shi was born in 1974 in Anhui, China. He obtained his BS at East China Normal University in 1996 and PhD with Professor Shengming Ma at Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry in 2001. After his postdoctoral work with Professor Gregory L. Verdine at Harvard University and Professor Chuan He at the University of Chicago, he joined the faculty of Chemistry at Peking University in 2004, where he was promoted to a full Professor in 2008. In 2017, he moved to Fudan University. His current research interests focus on Nitrogen fixation. Bing-Tao Guan graduated in Chemistry from Zhengzhou University and obtained his PhD under the supervision of Professor Zhang-Jie Shi in 2009 from Peking University. After postdoctoral research at Riken with Professor Zhaomin Hou, he joined the faculty of Chemistry in Nankai University in 2012 and started his independent career. He moved to Fudan University in 2019. His research focuses on organometallic complexes of s-block metals and their catalytic application in organic synthesis. Tong-Tong Liu was born in Shandong, P. R. of China. He obtained his BS from Shandong University of Technology in 2016 and MSc from Nankai University in 2019. Currently, he is continuing his doctoral studies in the group of Prof. Zhang-jie Shi at Fudan University. His work focuses on the activation and functionalization of N Dr Dan-Dan Zhai was born in Shanxi Provence, P. R. of China. She obtained her BS from Shanxi Datong University in 2012 and PhD from Nankai University in 2018 under the supervision of Professor Bing-Tao Guan. After carrying out postdoctoral work with Zhang-jie Shi at Fudan University, now she is working as an associate professor there. Her current research interests focus on the novel transformations and catalytic chemistry of transition-metal-N complexes. ObjectType-Article-2 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-3 content type line 23 ObjectType-Review-1 |
| ISSN: | 0306-0012 1460-4744 |
| DOI: | 10.1039/d2cs00041e |