The chemical reduction of nitrogen to ammonia using different metal catalysts has become a major area of interest in research over the past few decades. Work by the Nishibayashi group has shown that pincer-Mo catalysts are able to reduce nitrogen to ammonia chemically, however the process takes extremely high equivalents of a proton and an electron source.  We propose that the electrochemical reduction and protonation of nitrogen offers a more attractive alternative. Inspired by the work of both Nishibayashi and Schrock, we are synthesizing several different pincer-Mo complexes and plan to investigate the electrochemical nitrogen/nitride chemistry of each.<br/>

Molybdenum pincer complexes for nitrogen reduction to ammonia

254th National Meeting (2017)

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