“…[1][2][3] In this context, nitrogen fixation as ammonia is viewed as a key process, [4][5][6][7] since ammonia synthesis is considered as one of the foundational chemical processes of the human society, [8][9][10] supporting approximately 27% of the world's population over the past century. 11,12 Since French historian and chemist, Marcellin Pierre Eugène Berthelot, observed in 1859 the formation of a blue-colored dye when ammonia, phenol and hypochlorite were mixed, 13,14 a great number of studies have investigated this reaction, which is known nowadays as the Berthelot or indophenol reaction. 15 This term has since been generalized to refer to any reaction in which a phenolic compound reacts with ammonia and a hypochlorite source to form an indophenol-like dye, where the family of dyes is characterized by the indophenol group.…”