%0 journal article
%@ 1359-7345
%A Cao, H., Santoru, A., Pistidda, C., Richter, T.M.M., Chaudhary, A.-L., Gizer, G., Niewa, R., Chen, P., Klassen, T., Dornheim, M.

%D 2016
%J Chemical Communications : ChemComm
%N 29
%P 5100-5103 
%R doi:10.1039/C6CC00719H
%T New synthesis route for ternary transition metal amides as well as ultrafast amide–hydride hydrogen storage materials
%U https://doi.org/10.1039/C6CC00719H
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%X K2[Mn(NH2)4] and K2[Zn(NH2)4] were successfully synthesized via a mechanochemical method. The mixture of K2[Mn(NH2)4] and LiH showed excellent rehydrogenation properties. In fact, after dehydrogenation K2[Mn(NH2)4]-8LiH fully rehydrogenates within 60 seconds at ca. 230 °C and 5 MPa of H2. This is one of the fastest rehydrogenation rates in amide–hydride systems known to date. This work also shows a strategy for the synthesis of transition metal nitrides by decomposition of the mixtures of M[M′(NH2)n] (where M is an alkali or alkaline earth metal and M′ is a transition metal) and metal hydrides.