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Biological and industrial nitrogen fixation are the processes by which one of the most inert molecules, N 2 , is transformed into a bioavailable nitrogen source (e.g. NH 3 ) that can be incorporated into all nitrogen-containing biomolecules [1]. As such, nitrogen fixation is essential to sustaining life on this planet, and has attracted intense scrutiny among biological and chemical communities for decades [2][3][4]. The mechanism by which nitrogenase enzymes promote the biological reduction of nitrogen under ambient conditions remains an unsolved and fascinating problem [4-6]. Nature's solution to fixing nitrogen stands in sharp contrast to that which humanity has adopted, i.e. the Haber-Bosch process for ammonia synthesis that is carried out at approximately 200 atm and 500 8C. This Herculean feat of chemical engineering provides, in net, about 50% of the nitrogen atoms that wind up in all human beings on this planet [7]. From a chemist's perspective, however, this remains a brute force and high-energy solution to the nitrogen fixation problem, especially given the knowledge that nature can fix N 2 under ambient conditions. Chemists began to become more keenly aware of the appare

Author

Jonas C. Peters; Mark P. Mehn

Publisher

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9783527609376