Definitely among my top 10 articles in 2017. As I mentioned many times before, I am a big fan of N2 fixation. So much work, characterization, experiments and a beautiful result here. The highest turnover for N2 silylation! The thermodynamics of N2 binding to iron center is very interesting too. It goes like this Fe(0) > Fe(I) >> Fe(II). Just like you would expect, but now with more evidence. I had the chance to meet the first author at a conference this summer and he is a very nice person and such a good chemist. He gave me some suggestions on my own research and I tried some of them. Very helpful.
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jacs.7b04552
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