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SUMMARY:Breaking it and Fixing it: New Chemistry with Nitrogen
LOCATION:Chemistry A101
TZID:America/Denver
DTSTART:20260407T160000
UID:2026-05-15-17-19-05@natsci.colostate.edu
DTSTAMP:20260515T171905
Description:Seminar Abstract:\n\nAtmospheric N2 is a cheap\, abundant resou
 rce with great potential for energy storage and chemical synthesis\, but i
 t is difficult to convert it into other compounds (\"fixing\" nitrogen). T
 his seminar will describe the challenges and opportunities of nitrogen fix
 ation\, as well as my students\\' discoveries of how to break the N–N bo
 nd of N2 using homogeneous transition-metal complexes. In addition to new 
 catalysts for producing ammonia\, we have identified a new mechanism for s
 equential C-H activation and N-N activation to create C-N bonds. Detailed 
 mechanistic studies reveal a cyclic reaction\, which gives a route from at
 mospheric N2 and petroleum-derived arenes to substituted anilines. This is
  an important step toward preparing useful chemicals using air as a starti
 ng material.\n\nSeminar Bio:\n\nPatrick Holland trained at Princeton Unive
 rsity (A.B. 1993)\, University of California at Berkeley (Ph.D. 1997 with 
 Robert Bergman and Richard Andersen)\, and University of Minnesota (postdo
 c 1997-2000 with William Tolman). Prof. Holland is now Whitehead Professor
  of Chemistry at Yale University. His independent research at the Universi
 ty of Rochester and later at Yale has encompassed iron-nitrogen chemistry\
 , metal-ligand multiple bonds\, iron-sulfur clusters\, engineered metallop
 roteins\, redox-active ligands\, solar H2 production\, and mechanisms of c
 atalysis with Earth-abundant metals. His research has been recognized with
  a number of awards\, and election as a Fellow of the American Association
  for the Advancement of Science. 4:00 pm
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