Dinitrogen as a ligand

Dinitrogen complexes are molecules that contain dinitrogen bound to a metal. The first dinitrogen complex, [Ru(N2) (NH ) ], was reported in 1965 as a product of the interaction of hydrazine and RuCl (aq) (18). There are hundreds of complexes in the 1990s with dinitrogen as a ligand (19,20). 

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