Organometallic chemistry nitrogen fixation

Recently, the ammonia synthesis was called as the setting sun industry and someone also lamented the foreground obscuration of the chemistry of nitrogen fixation, in particular, in the research area of organometallic biochemical nitrogen fixation. However, ammonia is a fundamental building block for modern society and is essential for ammonia synthesis industry which drives the innovation and development of ammonia synthesis catalyst forward. 

For a more complete description of the principles of transition metal catalysis, a number of the excellent reviews published recently should be consulted. These include, in addition to those already cited, several reviews of rhodium (89) and palladium (90-93) chemistry, addition (94, 95) and insertion (96) reactions, homogeneous catalytic hydrogenation (97), hydride complex chemistry (98), nitrogen fixation (99), and organometallic complexes as potential synthetic reagents (100). 

Joseph Chatt s interests in organometallic chemistry were wide-ranging, from bonding theories to nitrogen fixation. While these areas may not seem of immediate relevance to either carbonyl cluster chemistry or to electrospray mass spectrometry (both of which play a major role in the work described herein), the chemistry that is discussed broadly overlaps with Chatt s contributions in metal hydride, metal phosphine and low-oxidation-state chemistry. 

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