New Avenues in Dinitrogen Fixation Research

✍ Scribed by Katsuyoshi Hoshino

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 169 KB
• Volume: 7
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0947-6539
• DOI: 10.1002/1521-3765(20010702)7:13<2727::aid-chem2727>3.0.co;2-4

✦ Synopsis

The present article focuses on a recent finding concerning dinitrogen fixation by using titanium oxide/ conducting polymer composite systems and its comparison with an earlier fixation method (Schrauzer process) that makes use of a powdered titanium oxide. Both processes work under the stimulus of light at room temperature and pressure, but dinitrogen is fixed to a solid ammonium salt crystal in the former and to a gaseous ammonia molecule in the latter process. Differences in the physicochemical concepts between the two processes are discussed.