Michael D. Fryzuk
Chem. Commun., 2013,49, 4866-4868
DOI:
10.1039/C3CC42001A,
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The impact of the report by Allen and Senoff in 1965 on the serendipitous discovery of the first complex with coordinated dinitrogen, [Ru(NH3)5N2]2+, is discussed in the context of what was known beforehand and the impact this work had on coordination chemistry.