Dinitrogen and related chemistry of the lanthanides: a review of the reductive capture of dinitrogen, as well as mono- and di-aza containing ligand chemistry of relevance to known and postulated metal mediated dinitrogen derivatives

This paper reviews the current array of complexes of relevance to achieving lanthanide mediated nitrogen fixation. A brief history of nitrogen fixation is described, including a limited discussion of successful transition metal facilitated nitrogen fixation systems. A detailed discussion of the numerous lanthanide-nitrogen species relevant to nitrogen fixation are discussed and are related to the Chatt cycle for nitrogen fixation.