Metallo-oxides in Nitrogen Fixation

Article abstract of DOI:10.1039/c39880001481

Ammonia is released from the metallo-imide trans-⁺ without degradation of the phosphine ligand assembly by a hydrolysis reaction which gives the oxide trans-⁺; and this oxide and its Mo analogue are reduced at a mercury cathode in the presence of molecular nitrogen with phenol as a proton source to give trans- (M = Mo or W); the primary reduction potentials of the Mo and W oxides are substantially positive of those of their isostructural imide counterparts and this suggests a possible role for oxides in biological nitrogen fixation.

Full text of DOI:10.1039/c39880001481

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