Beyond Fossil Fuel-Driven Nitrogen Transformations

Jingguang G. Chen; Richard M. Crooks; Lance C. Seefeldt; Kara L. Bren; R. Morris Bullock; Marcetta Y. Darensbourg; Patrick L. Holland; Brian Hoffman; Michael J. Janik; Anne K. Jones; Mercouri G. Kanatzidis; Paul King; Kyle M. Lancaster; Sergei V. Lymar; Peter Pfromm; William F. Schneider; Richard R. Schrock

doi:10.1126/science.aar6611

Beyond Fossil Fuel-Driven Nitrogen Transformations

Jingguang G. Chen, Richard M. Crooks, Lance C. Seefeldt, Kara L. Bren, R. Morris Bullock, Marcetta Y. Darensbourg, Patrick L. Holland, Brian Hoffman, Michael J. Janik, Anne K. Jones, Mercouri G. Kanatzidis, Paul King, Kyle M. Lancaster, Sergei V. Lymar, Peter Pfromm, William F. Schneider, Richard R. Schrock

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Abstract

Nitrogen is fundamental to all of life and many industrial processes. The interchange of nitrogen oxidation states in the industrial production of ammonia, nitric acid, and other commodity chemicals is largely powered by fossil fuels. A key goal of contemporary research in the field of nitrogen chemistry is to minimize the use of fossil fuels by developing more efficient heterogeneous, homogeneous, photo-, and electrocatalytic processes or by adapting the enzymatic processes underlying the natural nitrogen cycle. These approaches, as well as the challenges involved, are discussed in this Review.

Original language	American English
Article number	eaar6611
Number of pages	7
Journal	Science
Volume	360
Issue number	6391
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aar6611 https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aar6611
State	Published - 25 May 2018

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chemistry
fossil fuels
nitrogen

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Chen, J. G., Crooks, R. M., Seefeldt, L. C., Bren, K. L., Morris Bullock, R., Darensbourg, M. Y., Holland, P. L., Hoffman, B., Janik, M. J., Jones, A. K., Kanatzidis, M. G., King, P., Lancaster, K. M., Lymar, S. V., Pfromm, P., Schneider, W. F., & Schrock, R. R. (2018). Beyond Fossil Fuel-Driven Nitrogen Transformations. Science, 360(6391), Article eaar6611. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aar6611, https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aar6611

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