Recent advances in nitrogen fixation upon vanadium complexes

Although vanadium is one of the key elements in nitrogen fixation, catalytic reduction of dinitrogen into ammonia, hydrazine, or silylamine using vanadium complexes has not been developed until our very recent reports in 2017 and 2018. This review article sketches the historical background on the tr...

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Published in:Coordination chemistry reviews 2019-02, Vol.381, p.135-150
Main Authors: Tanabe, Yoshiaki, Nishibayashi, Yoshiaki
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Ammonia
Dinitrogen complex
Hydrazine
Nitrogen fixation
Silylamine
Vanadium
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Summary:Although vanadium is one of the key elements in nitrogen fixation, catalytic reduction of dinitrogen into ammonia, hydrazine, or silylamine using vanadium complexes has not been developed until our very recent reports in 2017 and 2018. This review article sketches the historical background on the transformation of dinitrogen using vanadium complexes, preparation and reactivity of vanadium–dinitrogen complexes (mainly protonation and cleavage of dinitrogen), and very recent advances on the catalytic conversion of dinitrogen into ammonia, hydrazine, and silylamine using vanadium complexes as catalysts. [Display omitted] Although vanadium is one of the key elements in nitrogen fixation, catalytic reduction of N2 into NH3, N2H4, or silylamines using vanadium complexes has not been developed until very recently. This review article describes the historical background on the transformation of N2 using vanadium compounds, preparation and reactivity of vanadium–dinitrogen complexes, and very recent advances on the catalytic conversion of N2 into NH3/N2H4/(Me3Si)3N using vanadium complexes as catalysts.
ISSN:0010-8545
1873-3840
DOI:10.1016/j.ccr.2018.11.005