Dinitrogen Activation: Dinitrogen Activation by Tricoordinated Boron Species: A Systematic Design (Adv. Theory Simul. 3/2020)

Dinitrogen activation is particularly challenging due to the inert nitrogen–nitrogen triple bond. In article number 1900205, Jun Zhu and co-workers report that dinitrogen activation can be made thermodynamically and kinetically favorable through through the use of a metal-free frustrated Lewis pair designed systematically from tricoordinated boron and N-heterocyclic carbene species.