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The First Reaction of the N 2 Ligand with Bases; Reduction of Coordinated Dinitrogen by Nucleophilic Attack
Author(s) -
Sellmann Dieter,
Weiss Woldemar
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition in english
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 0570-0833
DOI - 10.1002/anie.197708801
Subject(s) - nucleophile , reduction (mathematics) , chemistry , ligand (biochemistry) , base (topology) , nitrogen , metal , transition metal , center (category theory) , medicinal chemistry , stereochemistry , combinatorial chemistry , crystallography , mathematics , catalysis , organic chemistry , geometry , biochemistry , receptor , mathematical analysis
Nitrogen bound to a transition metal can be reduced in a fundamentally new way by base addition with retention of the N 2 ‐coordinating center; both reaction steps can be observed individually.