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Hydrocarbon activation and oxidation on transition metal mixed oxides: FT-IR and flow reactor studies

Conference ·
OSTI ID:467989
 [1]; ;  [2]
  1. Northeastern Univ., Boston, MA (United States)
  2. Universita P.le J.F. Kennedy, Genova (Italy); and others
The gas-phase partial and total oxidation of hydrocarbons (light alkanes, light alkenes, alkyl-aromatics) over transition metal oxide catalysts has been investigated using FT-IR spectroscopy of the adsorbed species in an IR cell, and in a flow reactor. It is proposed that both total and partial oxidation occur at the expense of nucleophilic lattice oxygen species. C-H activation gives rise to alkoxy groups that have an increasing carbocationic nature by increasing the possibility to delocalize the cationic: charge. A good parallelism is found between our data and with those are found in solution with similar oxidizing species.
OSTI ID:
467989
Report Number(s):
CONF-960652--
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English