A will of Iron.
Iron Complex/Scheme
An important step in the use of CO2 for hydrogen storage.
The group of Prof. Paul Dyson (LCOM - Laboratory of Organometallic and Medicinal Chemistry), together with researchers from the "Leibniz-Institut für Katalyse" (Germany) showed that an active well-defined iron complex (see structure; gray C, white H, yellow B, green F, brown Fe, pink P) catalyzes the reduction of bicarbonates and carbon dioxide to formates, alkyl formates, and formamidesn (see scheme). The iron-catalyzed reduction of readily available bicarbonates to formates has been demonstrated for the first time. This reaction could be an important step in the use of CO2 for hydrogen storage.