JACS Cover - 2020
Illustration for the cover of the November 4, 2020 issue of the Journal of the American Chemical Society.
Journal cover caption: Oxidation of ammonia offers the appealing prospect of obtaining electrical power from the chemical energy in N-H bonds. Molecular catalysts for this six-electron, six-proton process must balance the energetics of cleavage of N-H bonds, together with formation of the N≡N bond of dinitrogen and release of the N2.