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Ammonia Oxidation by Abstraction of Three Hydrogen Atoms from a Mo–NH3 Complex

Journal Article · · Journal of the American Chemical Society
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.7b00002· OSTI ID:1491705
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  1. Center for Molecular Electrocatalysis, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, P.O. Box 999, Richland, Washington 99352, United States
  2. Department of Chemistry, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington 99164, United States
  3. Department of Chemistry, Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania 19085, United States
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We report ammonia oxidation by homolytic cleavage of all three H atoms from a Mo৶15NH3 complex using the 2,4,6-tri-tert-butylphenoxyl radical to afford a Mo-alkylimido (Mo৶15NR) complex (R = 2,4,6-tri-t-butylcyclohexa-2,5-dien-1-one). Reductive cleavage of Mo৶15NR generates a terminal Mo৶N nitride, and a [Mo৶15NH]+ complex is formed by protonation. Computational analysis describes the energetic profile for the stepwise removal of three H atoms from the Mo৶15NH3 complex and the formation of Mo৶15NR. Acknowledgment. This work was supported as part of the Center for Molecular Electrocatalysis, an Energy Frontier Re-search Center funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (U.S. DOE), Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences. EPR and mass spectrometry experiments were performed using EMSL, a national scientific user facility sponsored by the DOE’s Office of Biological and Environmental Research and located at PNNL. The authors thank Dr. Eric D. Walter and Dr. Rosalie Chu for assistance in performing EPR and mass spectroscopy analysis, respectively. Computational resources provided by the National Energy Re-search Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Pacific North-west National Laboratory is operated by Battelle for the U.S. DOE.
Research Organization:
Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRC) (United States). Center for Molecular Electrocatalysis (CME); Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22)
DOE Contract Number:
AC05-76RL01830
OSTI ID:
1491705
Report Number(s):
PNNL-SA-121628
Journal Information:
Journal of the American Chemical Society, Journal Name: Journal of the American Chemical Society Journal Issue: 8 Vol. 139; ISSN 0002-7863
Publisher:
American Chemical Society (ACS)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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