Inorganic chemistry
Mechanism of Electrocatalytic N2O Reduction to N2 by a Rhenium Bipyridyl Carbonyl Complex.
Ya-Qiong Zhang, Tian Wu, Yu Zhang, Jia-Yi Chen, Rong-Zhen Liao
Published: 202510.1021/acs.inorgchem.5c04395
Abstract
The rhenium(I) complex, [Re(bpy)(CO)3Cl] serves as an effective electrocatalyst for N2O reduction to N2 in acetonitrile. Density functional theory (DFT) calculations reveal a dinuclear mechanism initiated by two successive one-electron reductions of…
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