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Title: Aspects of selective oxidation and ammoxidation mechanisms over bismuth molybdate catalysts--2. Allyl alcohol as a probe for the allylic intermediate

Journal Article · · J. Catal.; (United States)

Pulse reactor experiments were conducted on the reactions of unlabeled or deuterium- or oxygen-18-labeled allyl alcohols over molybdenum trioxide and various bismuth molybdates in the absence or presence of oxygen and ammonia. The allyl alcohol apparently adsorbed on oxidation sites to form acrolein via allyl molybdates, and on Broensted acid sites to form diallyl ether via an allyl carbonium ion. The bismuth enhanced ..cap alpha..-hydrogen abstraction, which was the rate-determining step in the oxidation. The product distributions provided evidence that the selective oxidation of propylene to acrolein proceeds via a m-allyl molybdate which collapses to an O o-allyl molybdate prior to the second hydrogen abstraction, and that the analogous N o-complex in ammoxidation undergoes two hydrogen abstractions to form acrylonitrile. Detailed reaction schemes are developed.

Research Organization:
Stand. Oil Co. (Ohio)
OSTI ID:
6319918
Journal Information:
J. Catal.; (United States), Vol. 63:1
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English