Hydrazine Energy Storage: Displacing N(2)H(4) from the Metal Coordination Sphere

Hydrogen carriers, such as hydrazine (N(2)H(4)), may facilitate long duration energy storage, a vital component for resilient grids by enabling more renewable energy generation. Lanthanide coordination chemistry with N(2)H(4) as well as efforts to displace N(2)H(4) from the metal coordination sphere to develop an efficient catalytic production cycle were detailed. Modeling the equilibrium of different ligand coordination, it was predicted that strong sigma donor molecules would be required to displace N(2)H(4). Monitoring competition experiments with nuclear magnetic resonance confirmed that trimethyl phosphine oxide, dimethylformamide, and dimethyl sulfoxide displaced N(2)H(4) in large or small lanthanide complexes.