The new catalytic property of supported rhenium oxides for selective oxidation of methanol to methylal

A new catalytic property of supported rhenium oxides has been found for selective methanol oxidation to methylal; high performances for the selective catalytic oxidation are observed with V2O5-, ZrO2-, Fe2O3- and TiO2-supported Re-oxide catalysts, which are characterized by pulse experiments, XRD and XPS.