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- A variety of new chromium complexes with carbene- and phosphine-based ligands have been created, including species with halides, nitrides, and dinitrogens.
- Some of these complexes demonstrate effective catalytic activity for converting dinitrogen into ammonia and hydrazine under atmospheric pressure.
- This research marks the first instance of using chromium as a catalyst for dinitrogen conversion to ammonia and hydrazine in mild reaction conditions.
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A series of chromium-halide, -nitride, and -dinitrogen complexes bearing carbene- and phosphine-based PCP-type pincer ligands has been newly prepared, and some of them are found to work as effective catalysts to reduce dinitrogen under atmospheric pressure, whereby up to 11.60 equiv. of ammonia and 2.52 equiv. of hydrazine (16.6 equiv. of fixed N atom) are produced based on the chromium atom. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first successful example of chromium-catalyzed conversion of dinitrogen to ammonia and hydrazine under mild reaction conditions.
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