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Title: Aluminum coordination and active sites on aluminas, Y zeolites and pillared silicates. Progress report, January 31, 1992--January 31, 1993

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/10110966· OSTI ID:10110966

Effort was continued to characterize the nature of the Al species responsible for Lewis acidity in zeolites and in aluminas by NMR. While numerous techniques have been successful for scaling the acid strength of Broensted sites, the situation is not satisfactory for the Lewis acid sites. Initial rate of dehydrochlorination of 1,1,1-trichloroethane is sensitive to strength of Lewis acid sites. N-Butene isomerization has been extended to the new aluminas obtained from nano-sized precursors. O-Xylene isomerization was carried out in a recirculation reactor on H-mordenite samples containing Lewis or Broensted acid sites; effects of H{sub 2} and NO were also investigated. Cracking of methylcyclohexane and 3-methylpentane was investigated by EPR on H-mordenite. Sepiolite, a Mg silicate with zeolitic channels, had Al substituted for Si; the negative charge is balanced by, say, VO{sup 2+}. Transformation of ethanol into butadiene on this dual-function catalyst appears to result from a Prins reaction between acetaldeyde formed on the redox sites and ethylene resulting from dehydration of ethanol on Lewis sites.

Research Organization:
Wisconsin Univ., Milwaukee, WI (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
DOE Contract Number:
FG02-90ER14130
OSTI ID:
10110966
Report Number(s):
DOE/ER/14130-2; ON: DE93006183
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: [1992]
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English