Coulston GW, Bare SR, Kung H, Birkeland K, Bethke GK, Harlow R, Herron N, Lee PL
G. W. Coulston, R. Harlow, N. Herron, DuPont Company, Wilmington, DE 19880-0262, USA. S. R. Bare, Dow Chemical Company, Midland, MI 48674, USA. H. Kung, K. Birkeland, G. K. Bethke, Ipatieff Laboratory, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208-3000, USA. P. L. Lee, Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439, USA.
Science. 1997 Jan 10;275(5297):191-3. doi: 10.1126/science.275.5297.191.
Maleic anhydride, a precursor to polyester resins, is made by oxidation of n-butane over vanadium phosphate catalysts. This system is of general interest because it is the only heterogeneously catalyzed, alkane-selective oxidation reaction in commercial use. Time-resolved in situ x-ray absorption spectroscopy shows that when either alphaI-VOPO4/SiO2 or (VO)2P2O7/SiO2 catalysts are exposed to n-butane, the rate of maleic anhydride formation is proportional to the rate of decay of V5+ species in the catalyst. Thus V5+ species are kinetically significant for the production of maleic anhydride and not just for the production of by-products. The results also suggest that V5+ species may play a role in the initial hydrogen abstraction from n-butane, the rate-determining step in the reaction sequence. V4+ sites appear to be responsible for by-product formation.
马来酸酐是聚酯树脂的前体,它通过正丁烷在磷酸钒催化剂上的氧化反应制得。该体系备受关注,因为它是商业应用中唯一的非均相催化烷烃选择性氧化反应。时间分辨原位X射线吸收光谱表明,当αI-VOPO4/SiO2或(VO)2P2O7/SiO2催化剂暴露于正丁烷时,马来酸酐的生成速率与催化剂中V^5+物种的衰减速率成正比。因此,V^5+物种在马来酸酐的生成中具有动力学意义,而不仅仅是在副产物的生成中。结果还表明,V^5+物种可能在正丁烷的初始氢提取中起作用,这是反应序列中的速率决定步骤。V^4+位点似乎是副产物形成的原因。