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Reduction of nitrous oxide and azide by protic nitrogen-fixation systems

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The pyrocatechol complexes and hydroxides of V(II), Ti(III), and Cr(II) reduce N20 to N2 and H20 and they reduce the azide ion in two- and six-electron reactions with the formation of N2 and NH3, and NH3 and N2H4, respectively.

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  1. Branch of the Institute of Chemical Physics, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Chernogolovka

    L. A. Nikonova & N. I. Pershikova

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Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 4, pp. 711–714, April, 1983.

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Nikonova, L.A., Pershikova, N.I. Reduction of nitrous oxide and azide by protic nitrogen-fixation systems. Russ Chem Bull 32, 645–647 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00953448

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