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SUBMITTER: Kinney RA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3139016 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kinney R Adam RA McNaughton Rebecca L RL Chin Jia Min JM Schrock Richard R RR Hoffman Brian M BM
Inorganic chemistry 20101214 2
Dinitrogen is reduced to ammonia by the molybdenum complex of L = [HIPTN3N](3-) [Mo; HIPT = 3,5-(2,4,6-iPr3C6H2)2C6H3]. The mechanism by which this occurs involves the stepwise addition of proton/electron pairs, but how the first pair converts MoN2 to MoN ═ NH remains uncertain. The first proton of reduction might bind either at Nβ of N2 or at one of the three amido nitrogen (N(am)) ligands. Treatment of MoCO with [2,4,6-Me3C5H3N]BAr'4 [Ar' = 2,3-(CF3)2C6H3] in the absence of reductant generates ...[more]