Although nitrogen is very abundant in the atmosphere as dinitrogen gas (N 2), it is largely inaccessible in this form to most organisms, making nitrogen a scarce resource and often limiting ...

of nitrogen, or less, because the soil provides the rest of the nitrogen. Our challenge is to make sure sufficient nitrogen is present when the plant needs it throughout the growing season.

"The cost of many drugs depends on the number of steps involved in making them, and drug companies are interested in finding ways to reduce these steps. By adding a nitrogen atom in the late ...

This example and related non-natural oxidative nitrogen transfer reactions bypass the requirement for a carbon-oxygen bond–containing progenitor, nature's prerequisite to making nitrogen ...