Condensed Matter Chemistry in Nitrogen Fixation（固氮反應中的凝聚态化學）
Xueli Wang#, Qianru Wang#, Di Li#, Junnian Wei, Jianping Guo, Liang Yu, Dehui Deng*, Ping Chen*, Zhenfeng Xi*
Prog. Chem., 2023. DOI: 10.7536/PC221224.
Nitrogen is an indispensable element for life and the material world. The development of efficient conversion strategies to transform dinitrogen gas into various valuable nitrogen-containing compounds is of great economic and scientific importance. The activation and transformation of dinitrogen molecule is an eternal topic in chemistry, and it is of profound significance to understand nitrogen fixation from the level of condensed matter chemistry. Several related examples have been illustrated here to discuss the effects of condensed matter phenomena in nitrogen fixation chemistry. Some critical scientific problems in the field are discussed from three aspects: nitrogen fixation in homogeneous solution, heterogeneous ammonia synthesis, and coupling multiple energy for N2/O2 conversion. We hope this review will inspire more chemists to think about the fundamental nature of nitrogen fixation chemistry from the perspective of condensed matter chemistry, offering more ideas to solve the related problems.
氮是構成生命和物質世界不可或缺的元素,發展高效的轉化方法将氮氣分子轉變為具有各種功能的含氮化合物,具有重要的經濟價值和科學意義。氮氣分子的活化轉化是化學學科永恒的課題,而凝聚态化學的研究方法和多層面認識對固氮研究具有深刻意義。本文列舉了一些固氮化學中的凝聚态現象,從均相溶液固氮、多相合成氨以及氮氣/氧氣多能耦合轉化等三方面,讨論了目前固氮化學領域中存在的關鍵科學問題,期望啟發更多學者從凝聚态化學角度思考固氮化學反應本質,為解決相關問題提供更多新的思路。
