Dinitrogen ligands — key for understanding how atmospheric nitrogen can be reduced — almost exclusively have even-numbered oxidation states. Now, however, lanthanide complexes with [N2]3− ligands have been synthesized and investigated.
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Chirik, P. One electron at a time. Nature Chem 1, 520–522 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.386
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