TY - JOUR
T1 - Fundamental studies of butane oxidation over model-supported vanadium oxide catalysts
T2 - Molecular structure-reactivity relationships
AU - Wachs, Israel E.
AU - Jehng, Jih Mirn
AU - Deo, Goutam
AU - Weckhuysen, Bert M.
AU - Guliants, V. V.
AU - Benziger, Jay Burton
AU - Sundaresan, Sankaran
N1 - Funding Information:
The work at Lehigh University was supported by the Division of Basic Energy Sciences, Department of Energy under Grant DEFG02-93ER14350. V.V.G., J.B.B., and S.S. wish to thank the AMOCO Chemical Corporation and National Science Foundation (Grant CTS-9100130) for support. B.M.W. acknowledges the “Belgisch Nationaal Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek” for a travel grant.
PY - 1997
Y1 - 1997
N2 - The oxidation of n-butane to maleic anhydride was investigated over a series of model-supported vanadia catalysts where the vanadia phase was present as a two-dimensional metal oxide overlayer on the different oxide supports (TiO2, ZrO2, CeO2, Nb2O5, Al2O3, and SiO2). No correlation was found between the properties of the terminal V=O bond and the butane oxidation turnover frequency (TOF) during in situ Raman spectroscopy study. Furthermore, neither the n-butane oxidation TOF nor maleic anhydride selectivity was related to the extent of reduction of the surface vanadia species. The n-butane oxidation TOF was essentially independent of the surface vanadia coverage, suggesting that the n-butane activation requires only one surface vanadia site. The maleic anhydride TOF, however, increased by a factor of 2-3 as the surface vanadia coverage was increased to monolayer coverage. The higher maleic anhydride TOF at near monolayer coverages suggests that a pair of adjacent vanadia sites may efficiently oxidize n-butane to maleic anhydride, but other factors may also play a contributing role (increase in surface Brønsted acidity and decrease in the number of exposed support cation sites). Varying the specific oxide support changed the n-butane oxidation TOF by ca. 50 (Ti > Ce > Zr ∼ Nb > Al > Si) as well as the maleic anhydride selectivity. The maleic anhydride selectivity closely followed the Lewis acid strength of the oxide support cations, Al > Nb > Ti > Si > Zr > Ce. The addition of acidic surface metal oxides (W, Nb, and P) to the surface vanadia layer was found to have a beneficial effect on the n-butane oxidation TOF and the maleic anhydride selectivity. The creation of bridging V-O-P bonds had an especially positive effect on the maleic anhydride selectivity.
AB - The oxidation of n-butane to maleic anhydride was investigated over a series of model-supported vanadia catalysts where the vanadia phase was present as a two-dimensional metal oxide overlayer on the different oxide supports (TiO2, ZrO2, CeO2, Nb2O5, Al2O3, and SiO2). No correlation was found between the properties of the terminal V=O bond and the butane oxidation turnover frequency (TOF) during in situ Raman spectroscopy study. Furthermore, neither the n-butane oxidation TOF nor maleic anhydride selectivity was related to the extent of reduction of the surface vanadia species. The n-butane oxidation TOF was essentially independent of the surface vanadia coverage, suggesting that the n-butane activation requires only one surface vanadia site. The maleic anhydride TOF, however, increased by a factor of 2-3 as the surface vanadia coverage was increased to monolayer coverage. The higher maleic anhydride TOF at near monolayer coverages suggests that a pair of adjacent vanadia sites may efficiently oxidize n-butane to maleic anhydride, but other factors may also play a contributing role (increase in surface Brønsted acidity and decrease in the number of exposed support cation sites). Varying the specific oxide support changed the n-butane oxidation TOF by ca. 50 (Ti > Ce > Zr ∼ Nb > Al > Si) as well as the maleic anhydride selectivity. The maleic anhydride selectivity closely followed the Lewis acid strength of the oxide support cations, Al > Nb > Ti > Si > Zr > Ce. The addition of acidic surface metal oxides (W, Nb, and P) to the surface vanadia layer was found to have a beneficial effect on the n-butane oxidation TOF and the maleic anhydride selectivity. The creation of bridging V-O-P bonds had an especially positive effect on the maleic anhydride selectivity.
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U2 - 10.1006/jcat.1997.1742
DO - 10.1006/jcat.1997.1742
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0002633957
SN - 0021-9517
VL - 170
SP - 75
EP - 88
JO - Journal of Catalysis
JF - Journal of Catalysis
IS - 1
M1 - CA971742
ER -