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Remarkable Dinitrogen Activation and Cleavage by the Gd Dimer: From Dinitrogen Complexes to Ring and Cage Nitrides
Author(s) -
Zhou Mingfei,
Jin Xi,
Gong Yu,
Li Jun
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.200605218
Subject(s) - homoleptic , chemistry , dimer , cleavage (geology) , ligand (biochemistry) , bond cleavage , molecule , ring (chemistry) , crystallography , nitride , photochemistry , stereochemistry , materials science , catalysis , metal , organic chemistry , receptor , biochemistry , layer (electronics) , fracture (geology) , composite material
Building up from scratch : The Gd 2 molecule reacts with N 2 in solid argon to form a homoleptic dinuclear dinitrogen complex containing a drastically activated side‐on and end‐on bonded N 2 ligand (see scheme; Gd orange, N blue). The complex rearranges to a planar cyclic [Gd(μ‐N) 2 Gd] isomer with a completely cleaved NN bond, which further dimerizes to form a cubic [Gd 4 N 4 ] cluster, a building block for (GdN) x nanoparticles.