Remarkable cleavage of molecular hydrogen without the use of metallic catalysts: a theoretical investigation
- 1 January 1998
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in New Journal of Chemistry
- Vol. 22 (11) , 1171-1173
- https://doi.org/10.1039/a806358c
Abstract
High level abinitio molecular orbital calculations show that molecular hydrogen can be cleaved by the 1,3-dimethylimidazolidin-2-yl cation in the presence of a base such as NH3 or HCOO- with quite a modest barrier, in a reaction that models the non-metallic hydrogenase from methanogenic archaea.Keywords
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