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SUBMITTER: Rittle J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5065330 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Rittle Jonathan J Peters Jonas C JC
Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) 20160908 40
Nitrogenase enzymes mediate the six-electron reductive cleavage of cyanide to CH4 and NH3 . Herein we demonstrate for the first time the liberation of CH4 and NH3 from a well-defined iron cyanide coordination complex, [SiP(iPr) 3 ]Fe(CN) (where [SiP(iPr) 3 ] represents a tris(phosphine)silyl ligand), on exposure to proton and electron equivalents. [SiP(iPr) 3 ]Fe(CN) additionally serves as a useful entry point to rare examples of terminally-bound Fe(CNH) and Fe(CNH2 ) species that, in accord wit ...[more]