Ammonia is produced industrially by combining nitrogen and hydrogen gas, catalysed over a solid iron surface. How about a catalytic reaction that could take place in solution? The first steps have now been taken.
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Fryzuk, M. Ammonia transformed. Nature 427, 498–499 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1038/427498a
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