Probing Molybdenum Active Sites during In Situ Photoreduction of the Mo6+/SiO2 Catalyst.
Rosangela SantaluciaGiuseppe SpotoLorenzo MinoPublished in: Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) (2021)
The photoreduction of the Mo6+/SiO2 system with CO was investigated in situ, employing a recently developed experimental setup allowing for the acquisition of transmission FT-IR spectra under simultaneous UV irradiation. Carbon monoxide, besides acting as a reducing agent in such processes, is also a useful probe molecule able to detect coordinatively unsaturated sites exposed on the surface. The unprecedented quality of the spectroscopic data, obtained as a function of the reduction time, allowed us to better rationalize the different mechanisms previously proposed for the photoreduction process. These results, coupled with UV-Vis spectroscopic data, shed light on the oxidation state and surface structure of supported molybdenum species, which are key active sites for several important reactions, such as selective oxidation, polymerization, hydrodesulfurization, epoxidation and olefin metathesis.
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