Electroreduction of Co-ordinated Cyanide to the Aminocarbyne Ligand (CNH2) and a Pathway for Isomerisation of Ligating Methyleneamide (NCH2): Reactions at Molybdenum of Relevance to Cyanide Reduction by Nitrogenase

Article abstract of DOI:10.1039/c39890001399

Electroreduction of trans- in the presence of phenol gives trans-, this is the first example of the conversion of co-ordinated cyanide to the aminocarbyne ligand, a reaction of relevance to reduction of cyanide by nitrogenase; the methyleneamide, trans-, is oxidised to the cyanide and therefore the redox reactions provide a pathway for the isomerisation of the group (MoNCH2) to (MoCNH2).

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