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Date of Award
Spring 2024
Document Type
Masters Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Science (MS)
Department
Chemistry
First Advisor
Gilbertson, John D.
Second Advisor
Rider, David A. (Materials scientist)
Third Advisor
Kowalczyk, Tim
Abstract
Human population growth has driven the need for an increase in food production via agriculture. This increase has been accomplished by means of the steady increase in nitrogen containing fertilizers leading to an imbalance in the global nitrogen cycle. Due to negative ramifications on mammalian and aquatic life attributed to an overabundance of bioavailable nitrogen, expedient pathways to denitrification of pollutants such as nitrites and nitrates to the more readily employed form of ammonia is desired. Nature often utilizes pathways that involve reduction via enzyme active sites for such denitrification. Bioinspired pathways exploiting modified coordination spheres for performing nitrogen reduction are under investigation and the formation of such active sites with the presence of iron will be discussed. The cooperation of the active site within these enzymes with the secondary and outer sphere(s) allows for control of otherwise obstinate reactions. By utilizing a redox active iron pyridinediimine (PDI) scaffold, ligand-based reduction of nitrite to nitrosyl is investigated. Reactions that make use of acids with anions such as tetraphenylborate and hexafluorophosphate are used in conjunction with various ligands to reduce nitrite and nitrate to nitrosyl. These anions are shown to break down with addition of heat to various subsidiaries. In this thesis, the role of various non-innocent anions in the presence of acid in these reductions are investigated.
Type
Text
Keywords
nitrite reduction, nitrate reduction
Publisher
Western Washington University
OCLC Number
1438569748
Subject – LCSH
Nitrites; Anions; Coordination compounds
Format
application/pdf
Genre/Form
masters theses
Language
English
Rights
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Recommended Citation
Teigen, Allison, "Deoxygenating Nitrogen Oxides Using Coordination Complexes and Anionic Activity" (2024). WWU Graduate School Collection. 1286.
https://cedar.wwu.edu/wwuet/1286