Cummins, Christopher

Cummins, Christopher C., Three-Coordinate Complexes of Hard Ligands ... 

Submitted by ADAM R. JOHNSON and CHRISTOPHER C. CUMMINS Checked by SANDRO GAMBAROTTAf... 

Although Heppert s discovery and the subsequent work by Grubbs and others has received special attention, it must be emphasized that prior to the studies on ruthenium carbido complexes Christopher Cummins from MIT had reported the preparation of the anionic molybdenum carbide [CMo N(R)Ar 3] (R =... 

Christopher C. Cummins and Richard R. Schrock Gerard Parkin Douglas C. Rees Hubert Schmidbauer John A. Gladysz... 

Christopher C. Cummins Robert F. Curl, Jr., Harold W. Kroto, and Richard E. Smalley Gunter Wachtershauser and Claudia Huber... 

In 1995, Christopher C. Cummins (1966- ) and his student Catalina E. Laplaza at MIT discovered that a molybdenum(III) compound of formula Mo(NRAr)3 (R is an alkyl group and Ar an aromatic group, not argon) could decompose the extremely stable N2 molecule under relatively mild conditions. The s) tem converts N2 to two nitrido (N ) ligands which can, in turn, be converted to ammonia (NH3) and other useful nitrogen compounds. 

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