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NITROGENASE, which contains iron, molybdenum and thiol groups, operates in an aqueous environment. Many attempts have been made to produce chemical models for nitrogenase based on the above knowledge and recently Schrauzer and co-workers have described dinitrogen-reducing systems of this type1,2 but they use high pressures of dinitrogen (135 atm) and obtain only 3 to 5 μmol. of ammonia from mmol quantities of reagents2 (see Table 1, example 1).
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HILL, R., RICHARDS, R. Reduction of Dinitrogen in Aqueous Solution. Nature 233, 114–115 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1038/233114a0
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