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Enhanced Activation of Coordinated Dinitrogen with p‐Block Lewis Acids
Author(s) -
Simonneau Antoine,
Etienne Michel
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
chemistry – a european journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.687
H-Index - 242
eISSN - 1521-3765
pISSN - 0947-6539
DOI - 10.1002/chem.201800405
Subject(s) - parallels , adduct , lewis acids and bases , catalysis , chemistry , surface modification , frustrated lewis pair , combinatorial chemistry , nanotechnology , organic chemistry , materials science , engineering , mechanical engineering
This Concept article highlights recent research on Lewis acid adducts of dinitrogen complexes, including our contributions. After a reminder of the early works, it is demonstrated that such kind of species offers a new platform for dinitrogen functionalization as well as valuable models for the understanding of elementary steps of (bio)catalytic cycles. When possible, parallels regarding this mode of activation from the orbital point of view are drawn between the different systems discussed herein.