Dinitrogen, coordination chemistry

MacKay BA, Fryzuk MD. Dinitrogen coordination chemistry on the biomimetic... 

Crossland JL, Tyler DR. Iron-dinitrogen coordination chemistry dinitrogen activation and reactivity. Coord Chem Rev. 2010 254 1883-1894. 

Organohydrazine derivatives play an important role in the coordination chemistry of rhenium since they represent important intermediates in the preparation of nitrido, imido, or dinitrogen complexes as has been described in the previous sections. They are defined as complexes which possess metal-nitrogen-nitrogen bonds, which would (strictly applied) also include dinitrogen complexes, and indeed this class has attracted considerable attention in the exploration of biological nitrogen fixation. 

Species not mentioned in this chapter include the coordination chemistry of dinitrogen, and of hydrazines, hydroxylamine and hydroxylaminato anions. The chemistry of coordinated dinitrogen has been extensively reviewed, and its protonation has been discussed in detail.1... 

The factors that influence the mode of bonding of nitric oxide. These are important as part of the more general study of how small molecules bond to, and are activated by, transition metals. In this respect the coordination chemistry of nitric oxide exhibits greater versatility compared with that of many other simple molecules, including carbon monoxide and dinitrogen. 

Hidai, M. Mizobe, Y. Chemical dinitrogen fixation by molybdenum and tungsten complexes insights from coordination chemistry. In Metal Ions in Biological Systems Sigel, A., Sigel, H., Eds. Marcel Dekker New York, 2002 Vol. 39, pp. 121-186. 

It is possible that our concentration upon the use of phosphines has unbalanced current perceptions about the coordination chemistry of dinitrogen. However, phosphines have opened so many new vistas in inorganic and organometallic chemistry that, be it due to luck or to exceptional insight, the debt of the chemical community to Chatt, and also to pioneers such as F. G. Mann, is difficult to over-estimate. 

Further work is necessary to bring these speculations to a systematization of dinitrogen and diazenido coordination chemistry (see also the Epilogue, Chapt. 11)1... 

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