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  "abstract": "Direct utilization of dinitrogen (N2) in organic synthesis remains an unmet challenge in sustainable chemistry, particularly under mild conditions. Conventional transition-metal-mediated N2 functionalization typically requires elaborately designed catalysts under harsh conditions, limiting operational practicality. Here, we report a mechanochemical strategy that achieves rapid, lithium-mediated N2 reduction at ambient pressure and temperature in under two minutes, delivering polymorphic mixtures of α- and β-lithium nitride. The resulting metal nitride serves as a versatile platform for single nitrogen-atom transfer: applied to skeletal conversion reactions, it enables direct O-to-N transmutation of furans and aromatic oxonium salts into the corresponding pyrroles and pyridine derivatives, establishing a formal incorporation of N2 into N-heterocycles. The photophysical consequences of the single-atom edit on excited-state properties of the molecular chromophores were evaluated.",
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    "Department of Chemistry",
    "Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST",
    "Division of Chemical and Material Metrology",
    "Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science",
    "Department of Applied Measurement Science",
    "University of Science and Technology",
    "Department of Materials Science and Engineering",
    "Korea University",
    "InnoCORE AI Co-Research & Education for Innovative Drug (AI-CRED) Institute",
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      "name": "Hayoung Shin"
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      "name": "Da Hye Lee"
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      "name": "Hosun Shin"
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      "name": "Hyeokjun Park"
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        9
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      "name": "Yoonsu Park",
      "orcid": "0000-0003-1511-0635"
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  "bibtex": "https://research.draconitic.com/paper/9s8p4169ht1r2.bib",
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  "doi": "10.26434/chemrxiv.15010321/v1",
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  "pdf_url": "https://chemrxiv.org/doi/pdf/10.26434/chemrxiv.15010321/v1",
  "pmcid": null,
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  "published": "2026-10-12",
  "publisher": "American Chemical Society (ACS)",
  "ris": "https://research.draconitic.com/paper/9s8p4169ht1r2.ris",
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  "title": "Rapid mechanochemical dinitrogen fixation for single-atom skeletal editing",
  "title_text": "Rapid mechanochemical dinitrogen fixation for single-atom skeletal editing",
  "type": "preprint",
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  "url": "https://research.draconitic.com/paper/9s8p4169ht1r2",
  "venue": "ChemRxiv",
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