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CHINESE JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Volume 33, Issue 5, Pages 507-520Publisher
CHINESE PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1063/1674-0068/cjcp2008141
Keywords
Dinitrogen activation; Atomic cluster; Reaction mechanisms
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21833011, 21973101]
- Youth Innovation Promotion Association CAS [2020034]
- K. C. Wong Education Foundation
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Reactions of gas-phase species with small molecules are being actively studied to understand the elementary steps and mechanistic details of related condensed-phase processes. Activation of the very inert N equivalent to N triple bond of dinitrogen molecule by isolated gas-phase species has attracted considerable interest in the past few decades. Apart from molecular adsorption and dissociative adsorption, interesting processes such as C-N coupling and degenerate ligand exchange were discovered. The present review focuses on the recent progress on adsorption, activation, and functionalization of N-2 by gas-phase species (particularly metal cluster ions) using mass spectrometry, infrared photo-dissociation spectroscopy, anion photoelectron spectroscopy, and quantum chemical calculations including density functional theory and high-level ab initio calculations. Recent advances including characterization of adsorption products, dependence of clusters' reactivity on their sizes and structures, and mechanisms of N equivalent to N weakening and splitting have been emphasized and prospects have been discussed.
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