{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["van IJzendoorn B"],"funding":["University of Manchester","University of Oxford","European Commission","UK Research and Innovation"],"pagination":["30317-30325"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC12371874"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["147(33)"],"pubmed_abstract":["Nitrous oxide (N<sub>2</sub>O) is sometimes referred to as the forgotten greenhouse gas, but ignoring it would be a mistake. N<sub>2</sub>O has a greenhouse warming potential 300× that of CO<sub>2</sub>, and anthropogenic emissions are increasing. Yet, compared to CO<sub>2</sub>, homogeneous catalysts that mediate its reduction are scarce. We present a range of cluster catalysts based on abundant and inexpensive p-block elements that mediate the conversion of N<sub>2</sub>O to environmentally benign N<sub>2</sub>. The catalysts studied offer many critical advantages, and systems can be tuned for performance, recyclability, selectivity, air stability, and commercial availability. Pnictogen clusters present themselves as a general platform in N<sub>2</sub>O reduction chemistry, and control reactions confirm that these clusters offer access to reactivity that simple monopnictogen molecules do not. Mechanistic investigations reveal that the low-valent clusters can access a -1/+1 redox couple, which goes beyond classical main group redox couples and will unlock a vault of hitherto unknown chemical space."],"journal":["Journal of the American Chemical Society"],"pubmed_title":["Catalytic Nitrous Oxide Degradation with Group 15 Clusters."],"pmcid":["PMC12371874"],"funding_grant_id":["EP/Y037391/1"],"pubmed_authors":["van IJzendoorn B","Kaltsoyannis N","Mehta M","Lister-Roberts R"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Catalytic Nitrous Oxide Degradation with Group 15 Clusters.","description":"Nitrous oxide (N<sub>2</sub>O) is sometimes referred to as the forgotten greenhouse gas, but ignoring it would be a mistake. N<sub>2</sub>O has a greenhouse warming potential 300× that of CO<sub>2</sub>, and anthropogenic emissions are increasing. Yet, compared to CO<sub>2</sub>, homogeneous catalysts that mediate its reduction are scarce. We present a range of cluster catalysts based on abundant and inexpensive p-block elements that mediate the conversion of N<sub>2</sub>O to environmentally benign N<sub>2</sub>. The catalysts studied offer many critical advantages, and systems can be tuned for performance, recyclability, selectivity, air stability, and commercial availability. Pnictogen clusters present themselves as a general platform in N<sub>2</sub>O reduction chemistry, and control reactions confirm that these clusters offer access to reactivity that simple monopnictogen molecules do not. Mechanistic investigations reveal that the low-valent clusters can access a -1/+1 redox couple, which goes beyond classical main group redox couples and will unlock a vault of hitherto unknown chemical space.","dates":{"release":"2025-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2025 Aug","modification":"2026-05-09T10:45:05.084Z","creation":"2026-04-08T00:48:34.751Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC12371874","cross_references":{"pubmed":["40767358"],"doi":["10.1021/jacs.5c09618"]}}