Production of isobutene from n-butane over Pd modified SAPOs and MeAPOs

Pd modified AlPO-11 and SAPO-5, 11, 34 were used in the direct transformation of n-butane to isobutene. The effect of acidity and porous structure on the supported Pd and the catalytic perfori-nance were discussed. For higher isobutene selectivity, some metals, such as Ti, Fe, Mg, Co and Mn, was incorporated into AlPO-11 framework and isobutene selectivity of 34.86% can be obtained over Pd/MnAPO-11. A combined catalyst system was used for a further improvement of the isobutene selectivity.

High-throughput characterization of heterogeneous catalysts by temperature-programmed analysis method

A multistream reactor for high-throughput examining the surface acidity by NH3-TPD method by application of multistream mass spectrometer screening (MSMSS) technique has been developed. This method allows for examining the surface acidity of 10 catalyst samples in about 6 h, which is an improvement over the traditional process. The demonstration of the feasibility of high-throughput TPD can be significant in convincing the hardened traditionalists in the heterogeneous catalysis community that, combinatorial methods indeed should have an important place in scientific catalyst research and development. The developed method could also be used for almost all the temperature-programmed analysis theoretically with careful designed multistream reactors. (C) 2003 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Theoretical study on the formation mechanism of Iso-CH2I-Cl

The dissociation and isomerization reaction mechanism on the ground-state potential energy surface for CH2ClI are investigated by ab initio calculations. It is found that the isomer iso-CH2I-Cl can be produced from either the recombination of the photodissociation. fragments or the isomerization reaction of CH2ClI, rather than from isomerization reaction of iso-CH2Cl-I. Further explanations of experimental results are also presented. (C) 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.