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Synthesis

Sidesplitting Nickel Breaks Up Laughing Gas

N-Heterocyclic carbene activates normally inert nitrous oxide to nickel insertion, resulting in rupture of the N–N bond

by Stephen K. Ritter
September 9, 2013 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 91, Issue 36

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