Recent advances in nitrogen fixation upon vanadium complexes

摘要

Although vanadium is one of the key elements in nitrogen fixation, catalytic reduction of N2into NH3, N2H4, or silylamines using vanadium complexes has not been developed until very recently. This review article describes the historical background on the transformation of N2using vanadium compounds, preparation and reactivity of vanadium–dinitrogen complexes, and very recent advances on the catalytic conversion of N2into NH3/N2H4/(Me3Si)3N using vanadium complexes as catalysts.