Issue 37, 2011
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Chemical Communications

Dinitrogen binding at vanadium in a tris(alkoxide) ligand environment†

Stanislav Groysman,a   Dino Villagrán,a   Danna E. Freedmana  and  Daniel G. Nocera*a  

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a Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139-4307, USA
E-mail: nocera@mit.edu
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Abstract

We report the first tris(alkoxide)V(III) complex to bind dinitrogen. Removal of THF from V(OR)3THF furnishes the highly reactive V(OR)3 fragment, which binds dinitrogen to form [V(OR)3]2(μ-N2) in the solid state. Dinitrogen is readily released upon dissolution of the complex. Structural and DFT studies are consistent with significant activation of N2 when bound by the vanadium tris(alkoxide) platform.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C1CC13645C
Article type
Communication
Submitted
19 Jun 2011
Accepted
27 Jul 2011
First published
17 Aug 2011

Chem. Commun., 2011,47, 10242-10244

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Dinitrogen binding at vanadium in a tris(alkoxide) ligand environment

S. Groysman, D. Villagrán, D. E. Freedman and D. G. Nocera, Chem. Commun., 2011, 47, 10242 DOI: 10.1039/C1CC13645C

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