Sulla natura dei centri acidi superficiali di un catalizzatore di ossidazione del metanolo

Farnè, Giovanni ; Pernicone, Nicola

Atti della Accademia nazionale dei Lincei. Rendiconti della Classe di scienze fisiche, matematiche e naturali, Série 8, Tome 44 (1968) no. 4, pp. 560-565

Résumé

An infrared spectroscopic study was carried out on a MoO3—Fe2(MoO4)3 catalyst. From the bands observed, water was shown to be molecularly adsorbed at room temperature. After heating at 100°C, water is desorbed, and absorption bands typical of H- bonded hydroxyls were observed. The intensity of these bands decreases by further heating; at 400°C no was band detected at all in the ranges 2500-4000 cm-1 and 1500-1800 cm-1. After adsorption of ammonia at room temperature a broad band at 1140 cm-1 appears, which was attributed to the vibration of ammonia interacting with adsorbed water. This band disappears by simple evacuation. On catalyst heated at 100°C and 250°C, after ammonia adsorption we have observed bands typical of the ammonia adsorbed on Lewis acid sites. On the catalyst heated at 100°C evidence was also obtained for the presence of Bronsted acid sites. It was concluded that, at temperatures around 250°C, the surface acidity of the catalyst mostly arises from Lewis sites, which probably are anionic vacancies formed by dehydroxylation, as occurs in Al2O3.