Dinitrogen is everywhere, making up nearly 80% of the air we breathe. But despite dinitrogen's high availability, it is challenging to use it directly in chemical reactions.

Nitrogen finally joins the elite tier of elements like carbon that can form neutral allotropes—different structural forms of a single chemical element. Researchers from Justus Liebig University, ...

Dinitrogen tends to be a loner. Extreme conditions, such as intense radiation in the ionosphere, are needed to coerce two or more N 2 molecules to form chains. Various pharmaceuticals and ...

Molecular nitrogen (dinitrogen, N=N) makes up about 78 percent of the atmosphere. It is the most unreactive diatomic species known. Interestingly, however, nitrogen is required for all life; it is ...

Reactive calcium complex captures dinitrogen Surprise reaction suggests chemists should rethink the periodic table’s s-block by Bethany Halford March 11, 2021 ...

Molybdenum dinitrogen complexes supported by monodentate arylsilylamido ligand, [Ar(Me3Si)N]3MoN2Mg(THF)2[N(SiMe3)Ar] and [Ar(Me3Si)N]3MoN2SiMe3 (Ar = 3,5-Me2C6H3) were synthesized and ...

Dinitrogen gas (N 2) is the ultimate end product of denitrification, but other intermediate gaseous forms of nitrogen exist (Figure 7). Some of these gases, such as nitrous oxide ...

Nitrous oxide, also known as dinitrogen oxide or dinitrogen monoxide, is a chemical compound with chemical formula N2O. It is commonly known as laughing gas due to the exhilarating effects of ...

While there are bacteria that are able to reduce dinitrogen to ammonium, researchers at the University of Rhode Island, Institut de Ciències del Mar in Barcelona, University of California at ...

The flash of lightning and the dance of auroras contain a fourth state of matter known as plasma, which researchers have harnessed to produce a gas that may activate plant immunity against wide ...