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APPLIED SURFACE SCIENCE
卷 317, 期 -, 页码 241-251出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.apsusc.2014.08.093
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FTIR spectroscopy; Probe molecules; Pyridine Lewis acidity; Cation vacancy; alpha-Pyridone
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- Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion [ENE2009-14522-CO5-01]
- FEDER fund from the European Union
- Junta de Andalucia for his fellowship [POG-TEP01965]
- Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion
The acid-base properties of MgO-Al2O3 supports and NiSn/MgO-Al2O3 catalysts were evaluated by IR spectroscopy using pyridine as a probe molecule. The results indicate that only Lewis acid sites were detected on the surface of the supports as well as on the catalysts. Nevertheless, Bronsted acid sites were not detected. In the support without MgO three kinds of coordinatively unsaturated acid sites were detected: Al3+ cations occupying octahedral, tetrahedral and tetrahedral with cationic vacancy in the neighbourhood. The last sites appear as the strongest. Moreover, they are able to activate the pyridine molecules leading to the formation of an intermediate ce-pyridone complex. When MgO or NiO were added to the alumina, the number and strength of the Lewis acid sites decreased and significant changes were observed in the tetrahedral sites with adjoining cation vacancies. The incorporation of the Mg2+ cations into the alumina's structure takes place on the vacant tetrahedral positions, forming spinel MgAl2O4. As a result, the fraction of tetrahedral sites with adjoining cationic vacancy diminished and the intermediate ce-pyridone complex in the support with the highest MgO loading was hardly detected. The addition of Ni2+ cations leads to the filling of the free octahedral positions, resulting in the formation of a NiAl2O4 spinel structure and the thermal stability of the ce-pyridone species decreases. In the catalysts, the progressive reduction of the number and strength of the Lewis acid sites is due to a competitive formation of the two types of MgAl2O4 and NiAl2O4 spinels. In the catalyst NiSn/30MgO-Al2O3 no cationic vacancies were detected and the surface reaction with ce-pyridone formation did not occur. (c) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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